The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-28
SHERMAN'S MEMOIRS,
The Autobiography of William Te-
cumseh-Incidents OF the War.
From the New York Herald


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| The Autobiography of William Te'
| cumseh-imcidents OF the War.
From the New York Herald.
Sherman shows that lie can WELD the
pen as we'll a. the sword. His style is
as much his own S that of Caesar OF
Napoleon. It is winning style. We
see gifted man telling his life in 6
plain, artless fashion, but with trench.
ant rhetoric. Whenever an opinion
is demanded he gives it. His picture
of the early days in California is as
graphic as chapter from Sir Walter
Scott. Now and then there are criti.
cisms upon his contemporaries which
will provoke comment but plainly
enough, Sherman means what he says.
This is the value of the work. We are
| glad the general has written it. In
many cases it throws new light upon
the rebellion.
BULL RUN.
Sherman's comment upon this battle
is characteristic. cit is generally adj
mitted that that was one of the best
planned battles ofthe war, but one of the
worst fought. Our men had been told
so often at home that all they had to do
was to mako a bold appearance and the
rebels would run, and nearly all of us
for the first time then heard the sounds
of cannOns aud muskets in anger, and
saw the bloody scenes common to bat
! ties, with which we were soon to be
! familiar. We had no organization, good
men but no cohesion, no real disci-
! pline, no respect for authority, no real
! knowledge of war. Both armies were
fairly defeated, and whichever had
stood fast the other would have run.
! Though the north were overwhelmed
with modification and shame, the south
really had not much to boast of, for in
the three or four hours fighting their
organization was so broken up that they
did not, aud could not, follow our army
| when it was known TO be in state of
! disgraceful and causeless flight. It is
easy to criticise a battle after it is over,
| but all now admit that none others,
! equally aw in war, could have done
! better than we did at Bull Run, and
the lesson of that battle should not be
lost on a people like ours"
GRANT UNDER A CLOUD.
After Shiloh Gen. Halleck came and
| took the field, and Gen. Grant, after
winning this battle, was substantially
| left out and was named second in com
mand, according to some French notion,
with no clear, well-defned command or
authority" "For more than a month
| Grant thus remained without any appar-
ent authority, frequently visiting me
and others, but rarely complaining but
[ could see how deeply he felt the in
! dignity if not the insult heaped upon
him" This overshadowing of Grant
continued for short time and evidently
moved Sherman's sympathies toward his
! commander. One evening he learned
| that Grant had asked for thirty days
leave and was going to depart the next
morning. "Of course, We all knew, "
| says Sherman, "that Grant was chatting
under the Sights OF his anomalous posi-
| ton, and [ determined to sea him on my
way back. HIS camp was q short dis
| lance off the Monterey road in the
woods, and consisted of four or five
tents with a sapling railing around the
front. As l rode up, Majors Rawlings,
| Logan and Hillyer were in front of the
camp, and piled up near them were the
usual effects and camp che SITS ready for
| starting in the morning. ] inquired for
the general, and was Shown to his tent,
where [ found him seated upon camp
! stool, with some papers on rd0e camp
! table. He seemed to be employed in
asserting and tying them up with
red tape into convenient bundles. After
! passing the usual compliments | in
| quired if it were true that he was going
away. He said, yes / then inquired
! the reason. He said Sherman, yOu
! know You know that | am in the way
/ 7 : l.. I
! and can endure it no longer | in
! quired where he was going to. He
said, 'St. Louis I then asked if he
had any business there, and he said,
Not a bit then begged him to stay.
illustrating his case by my own. Before
! the battle of Shiloh [ had been cast
crazy But that single battle had
! given me new life, and now I was in
| high feather I argued with him that
| if be went away events would go right
| along and he would be left out, whereas
if he remained some happy accident
might restore him to favor and his true
| place The result wa, that Gen. Grant
remained, and in a short time, by the
removal of Halleck to Washington, be-
| came the commander of the army"
SHERMAN ON POLITICS.
There is a long letter from Sherman
to Halleck, written on the 18th of Sep
TENDER, 1868, in which he gives his
ideas about the rebellion and its posi-
BILE future. Lincoln was anxious to
publish this letter, but Sherman would
not consent to it. He opposed the re-
vival of state governments in the south.
Two more battles would have to be
! fought before there could be civil order,
Zone near Meridian, in November, and
one near Shreveport, in the spring"
AS for the farming and artisan class in
the south, they were the real third es ate
and would move with the politicians
As for the union men of The south, they
We're beneath contempt, and the ''yOung
| bloOds, sons of planters, lawyers, they
were good billiard players and sports
men, but they never did any work aud
never viii. War suits them and the
rascals are brave, Il 10 TideIs, utterly
reckle s, who must all be killed or en-
! plOYed before Il ere can be peace. )"
| Civil government would be ridiculous"
There should only be military rule"
until the armies of the south were CON
| quersd. The union should be para
! mount. and there could be DO compro-
mise ana me war must DE fought ont to
the end. If this letter had been pub
lished at the ime 1t would have made
profound impression, but Sherman was
resolute ia his determination not to take
any part in politics.
THE QUEEN AGAIN N DANGER. The
British Medical Journal says that
O'Couner, who, on the day of thanks
So, II
Wales, attempted 10 shoot the queen,
was arrested again On the oh inst.
The queen was holding a drawing-room
at Buckingham Palace, and OConner
was found standing at the same place
in front Of the ratings, from which he,
on the former occasion, pointed pistol
of tho uuanD Tho .rrosE ,.-,s r,I7;otI1,