Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1869-01-16
Sketches of the Heroes Of the War.


Sketches of the Heroes Of the War.
On the occasion of the closing scenes of the
grand Western military reunion held at Chicago,
the Chicago Tribune gives the following brief
sketches of the most prominent personages
present.
GENERAL SHERMAN
Stands six feet one in his boots is tall, slender,
-Shouldered and thin as as a rail. There
is nothing majestic in his physique, nothing that
possesses the beholder with that reverential feel
ing which the name of Sherman inspires. The
man eliminates in the head where all the
strength, and power, and greatness lie. He re-
minds one of palm tree whose stem, bare Of
beauty and comeliness, bears on top luxurant
foliage and golden fruit. Shermans body is
only noticeable from it's connection with the
head which it supports. The neck is long
row and flexible; and on it the head moves on
pivot. 1t would seem as if the General can.
without difficulty, turn round his head and look
backward without using his body. Then comes
the head itself-massive, powerful and out of all
proportion to the body. 1t is a remarkable
head, very not beautiful head by any means.
Few handsome heads are good ones. 1t is such
head one of the old masters would have
loved to paint The posterior portion is not alb
normally developed. The General, judging from
chronological appearances, is not troubled with
much veneration, and the bumps behind the
ears are too large to justify the suppostion that
he would follow the spiritual injunction of turn
ing the other check to the smiter He is emn-
emily combative, as the rebellion has abundantly
proved. The face is unique the lower part
thin and covered with sandy beard, closely cut;
the chin is square and firmly set; the
cross between the Grecian and Roman, with most
of the Roman. Greatness is supposed to lie in
the nose of eminent men, and large is
taken to be indicative of greatness, 6rmness and
force. Sherman's is exception. The fore
head takes up half the face. 1t is high broad
and square. CONSTITUENCIES is prominent. His
are beetling brows overhanging the upper half
of the face, and imparting to it somberness and
sternness. His eyes deep-set and OF cold
gray, the eyebrows shaggy, the hair long,
straight and black. In manner the General is
easy, affabe and pleasing, and talks well to
everybody but reporter. He is as cool as
cucumber, and, like good soldier, always
his guard.
GENERAL GRANT
Is so well known, and his picture enshrined in
so many hearts, that detailed description would
be supererogatory. Five feet eight built in pro-
portion, and well built too he has a comely APP
pearance. His face is pleasant, sober and ser
ene The square mouth of the "post-o1ice or
der" as Dickens says, and the firm lower jaw,
The nose, somewhat like Sherman's looks as if
Roman and Grecian had gone into partner
ship and struck average. II is very good
average, however. The forehead is high and
broad the eyes unfathomaDle as the ocean and
likewise as clear. The beard is of the shoe
brush type and the hair stiff AS the quilts of the
fretfu porcupine, and cropped close The Pres
ident elect is more remarkable for simplicity,
almost verging on carelessness IN costume, than
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all the purer and brighter for his unostentatious
and quiet grace and dignity.
GENERAL THOMAS
Rises six feet and is stoutly built. He has the
frame of Hercules. The head is far above the
average size 1t is large and square, the head
of lion. The shape is the outward and visible
sign of inward mind. There is room inside TOR a
large brain and his upper-story is well furnished
He is brusque and looks slightly feroclous. lie
can be genial, however, and his smile, when ne
does smile, which is not often, would make
hearty laugh for man OF less vitality. Inc
hero of Nashvilei is of retiring disposition, for
merit is ever modest. He has the finest pres
ence of all the warriors and looks the hero from
boots to head.
GENERAL sCHoFIELD,
Secretary of War, is short, stout, stumpy man
"a perfect lump of fat His body is fat, his
hands are fat, and so is his face The nose is
almost lost between the two promontorles vi INV
that form his cheeks, and his eyes are nearly H.
visible He is deer, ducky little fellow, as the
ladies would say. His head is bald, but not
from age, for be is young yet-forty, perhaps
but more likely from the working of ideas
within. He is disposed to corporosity, and IN
that respect is fully qualified for an Alderman s
chair The forehead is high and prominent.
| GENERAL sLocUM
ls probably the handsomest of the Generals. he
has fine face, Roman nose, large eyes, rather
a weak mouth and chin, and a large forehead
Strength is not depicted in his face-the lines
are not strong-but it is a handsome Mandy
pambyish face. He is gray, and about forty-fve
years of age.
GENERAL N DowELL
Makes hne appearance. His form is bulky, hii
shoulders broad, his head large and we'll set
He wears black mustache and short black hair
| GENERAL LOGAN
Is known to nearly every one in this city Ht
looks like half-breed, is swarthy, has long
black hair and formidable mustache His ewes
are black and piercing. His mustache carries
off the belt among the Generals He is small
we'll knit and generally wears an unimpeachable
black coat'of formal shape. Age, forty-more
or less.