New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-02-12
GEMS. SHERMAN md THOMAS on TIE
ARMY or THE CUMBERLAND

At the banquet following the reunion OF the
officers Of the Cumberland. at Cincinnati last week Gen.
Sherman made the following speech:
Mr. CHAIRMAN: Before commencing my I'VE minutes
to @yf toy be uss f @ member aS
this army. Great cheers Iftherc Is mn older soldier
know il. laughter / know that Gea johnson and
Gen. Wood, who st on my night were appointed TO the
but claim to be Of the Army Of the Ono Of the Army Of
the Cumberland, and Of the Army Of the Tclnessee
age enough for me- but bound together ali in one the
grand army Of the West IT Is title q which proud
Of Se ARMY
share in the after part of the war wonld probably go
myself Cries Of GO on'I But assure yoy. eepile
ana by 0ef yOu GTS vSs' than e
world at large knows; for q great deal 81 work
you in chief The first three years Of che war now re-
gard and every old officer Will bear me out p this that
You s ali az You pioDs
bly, much Of the affairs OF the world as you do now,
into that school which term he soder where you
act from habit from impulse, from association, rather
affairs tells You that in France IN Prussia and wherever
s ss to make All S
succeeded to1his great command And how duufnl
center wS agppsuse Ana he had back h
pretty clever men, Laughter On hs right was Nc
most who are here had known him for years socially
and as All olceJ and brayer holder, and genter man
never served any land. lAppause he is not here, but
lie looks down upon now and know he speased 10
you here together In social eoncOurte, and know when
you speak his name In Kindness and prase. IL viii reach
him where he now 10. tsensaton and applnusel And
tell you when had Mcpherson my right knew all
well there too Cheers] Hooked TO the other end.
and there was schofeld With large brain and firm
standing up on his feet that nothing but ths
stroke OF death. Where he was, security. Then,
with three such armies In onethe great trinity 81 war;
how could fail No danger, no amount OF distance, no
amount Of obstrnetion weighed feather In my mind for
knew they could al be overcome Therefore my friends
we all went In. from the head 10 the foot. with con-
And that resolution gained victory Cbecrr. That
whether over the mountains about Chattanoor whehey
over The vast REGION Of pine which lay between us and
the whether 70 the north the sonth-for every
you were right Every movement made nom the day
We left Chattanooga was attack upon IDchmcnd.
lCheers aud laugbttrl And now, my friends, 10
dwell upon things OF this hind, fainibar To YOU
all, would simply be consuming time and tning
you. Cries OF mo- no." 20 on" "weve got past the
sea- now" laughter and cheert.l But nssuia yop
uemen when you couple all these events together, ard
spread them before the great outer world, our own
people, and the French, the German AID Tire Ennlsh.
you will be amazed at the mnutenees n hcv trowltdge
They have studied every march and every movement ~
tho right or left, aud have this Summer and last
men OF tile highest intelligence abroad who ttuded our
movements ana can tell You to-day more than We our.
selves know OF their bearing upon the history OF The
world Aud do believe that the movements of the sroat
Army OF the Wet after II came together As whole,