The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1865-06-07
sherman's Farewell Address.
HDQ'Rs Mn. DIV. Miss. N THE FILLD' |
Washington, D, G., May 80, 1865.

! Special Field Orders,
No. 10.
| The General commanding announces 10 the
armies of Tennessee and Georgia that the Tune
/ has come for US to part. Our work Is zone, anu
/ armed forces no longer detain u.s. Some OF you
will be retained in service until furthef ofuets'
| and now that We are about to separate 70 h!iA-
| gle with the civil world it becomes pleasing
| duty to recall to mind the situation OF ha'ionai
| affairs. When but little more than year az
we were gathered about the trownihs ciiliS ~
| Lookout Mountain, all the future was "l"P' II
| doubt and uncertainty. ,.r..
| The armies had come together from dliieFehI
| fields with separate histories, bound oy one
! common cause.-the Union of our country ana
| the government of our Inheritance. Ihefe Is
| M need to recall. to your memories Tunnel mn
with its rocky-faced mountain, and huzzards
Roost gap, with the ugly forts OF Dalton pc
| hind We were in earnest, and paused hoeior
danger and difficulty, but dashed through snake
creek gap and fell on Resacca, then on 10 Dai,
! las Kennesaw. and the heats OF summer iouhd
ps ON the banks of the ChaJtahooche, TAP from
home and dependent on single me loF sup
niles. Again, we were not to be held BACK oy any
| obstacle. and crossed over and fought -FOUR 1ea[
w battles for the possession OF the cltauel Oh
| Atlanta. That was the crisis of our history
| A doubt still clouded our future, but we soiVea
the problem and destroyed Atlanta, struch
across the State of Georgia, severed all me main
arteries of life to our enemy, and christmas
| found us at Savannah. Waiting there only
long enough to fill our wagons, we again began
q march. which for peril, labor, and results Will
compare with any ever made by an organized
army. The floods of the Savannah, the swamps
of the Combahee and Edisto the high hills OF
the Santee. the fiat quagmires oft the Pedee and
Cane Fear rivers. were all passedin mld-wlnter,
with its floods and rains in the face OF an &C
cumuhting enemy and after the battles OF
Ayerysboro and Bentonville, we once more
came out of the wilderness TO meet our 1flendS
at Goldsboro' And even then we only pausec
long enough to reload our wagons, ana pushec
forward to Raleigh aud beyond, until we me
the enemy suing for peace instead OF war, anC
Offering to submit to the injured laws OF his anC
our country. As long as the enemy was defiant
mountains, rivers, swamps, nor hunger, no
cold had checked us, but when he who hat
fought us too hard and persistently, Offered
submission, your General thought it wrong t.
: pursue him further and negotiations followed
which resulted in his surrender How lar TIN
2 operations of the army have contributed to tn
q overthrow of the Confederacy and the restora
+ ton OF peace which now uaWuS Oh usi otIel
must Judge, not US; but that you have don
all that men could do, has been admitted b
those in authority, and we have right to jo
, in the universal JOY that fills our land, beeaus
, the war is over and our government stands win
. dicated before the world by the joint action Q
: the volunteer armies Of the United States I
9 such as remain in the military service you
v Gen. need only remind you that successes /
8 the past are due to hard work and discipline
and that the same work and discipline are equa
" important in the future. To such as go hom
>, he will only say that our favored country is S
\ grand, so extensive, so diversified in climate
soil and productions that every man surely ca
J, find home and occupation suited to his TASTE
Y and none should yield to the natural tendencie
: sure to result from our past life of excitemer
;, , and adventure. You will be induced to see
i new advantages abroad; but do not yield to tn
, temptation, for it will lead only to death an
d Disappointment Your General now bids yo
u all farewell, and in the full belief that, as
d war, you have been good soldiers so in peac
YOU will make good citizens; and if, unfortur
D ately, new war should arise in our countr.
Is Shernan's army will be the first to buckle 0
:, the old armor aud come forth and maintain tn
q government of our inheritance and choice.
BY order of
l. Major Gen. W. T. SHERMAN.