Vicksburg weekly herald., 1878-03-29

fierce sort OF poverty that dthes chari-
table cid or sympathy.
While he reheaFSed the old story Of
wrong, be suddenly stopped, aud as
ugly 8 gleam 90 ever care to see shot
from hiS gray eyes. He was looking
at . oarrisge aud pair that Was rolling
by. The high-Stepplng bays In their
glittering harness we're driven by . col
Ored man, sleek, fat and insolent, aud
they carried General Teeumseh Sher.
man, sitting back with arms folded, 90
II he felt that the eyes OF the world
we're on him In grateful admiration.
Ny old friend lifted his arm and shook
his clGnched hand at the carriage and
occupant as they swept by, and cried
out:
"There goes the damned scoundrel
tho damned cOwardly, lying scoun
drel; the damned traitor There be
goes, damn himp
Fearing that might be implicated
in this fierce indictment OF the General,
l buried away. Barring the profanity,
the old man did not give ills epaulet.
ted fraud an epithet amiss.
THE SLAUGHTER AT SHILOH.
The man who thus anAthem Alizad
Sherman was old Tom WOrthIngton, OF
Ohio. A graduate Of West Point, be
left the service for q more active lie
aud did not return until the late civil
war broke upon the country, and he
then raised regiment, the FOrty.sixih
Ohio Infantry, and took the field. lie
made for the time an extraordinary
officer. His keen soldierly instincts,
stimulated by au indomitable energy,
and sustained By an iron will, we're
marred by q quick temper and Q coarse,
overbearing manner. But fJr the try
ing occaaion he was gem Of 9 man,
and under q military Power, such ~
France or Germany, would have found
recognition 10 high rank. But the iH-
fuences that governed promotion 10
our army during the war we're Of West
Point, aud those we're, as they yet are,
half social and half political-the So
clal rather the stronger element Of the
two. II is not that The army 10 refined,
but II 10 exclusive, made up Of CliQues
aud controlled like q close corporation.
There was too much Of the volunteer
about Colonel Tom to please the West
Point panpers Ia fact and arislocrats
through assumption.
Colonel Tom was martinez, aud
drilled and disciplined his troops Until
life getting TO bs q burden they became
gallant in the face Of danger that al
worst might afford relief. His soldier
ly instincts taught him that as much
could he got from the spade 10 the use
OF raw troops % the musket, aud biz
eucAmpmenis could be traced by the
earth. works be lett behind, aud be
fought with a readiness that indicated
pleasure Ia the 6IhIing. These high
qualities proved his ruin on trying
occasion when any other man would
have secured lame aud fortune.
Colonel Toms FUrtY.siIlh Ohio lO-
iaulry made a part Of Grant aud Sher.
mans advance when il went into camp
at Pillsburg LIndiug, probably re-
membered 10 history rs Shiloh. The
FOrty-.ixth made the exrOme right,
and Colonel WOrthinglon went into
camp full OF anxiety. tie knew that
Grant had cut his army In halves aud
WAS marching into the enemy's country
with the leading half without the other
in supporting distance. lie saw with
cOnsieruation that the army was en-
csmped without reference 10 q defense,
wide gap being left between the
wings for force that was SuppOsed TO
be len days ut loasI IN the rear. This
anxiety WAS not quieied by the criminal
negligence that lett this force without
even a picket lIue.
COnonel Worhington repaired Ia
heat quarters 10 6nd the Generals.
Thev were insOlent and overbeariDg,
deaf 10 Ill Suggestions, and he returned
to make the best preparation he could
TO meet calamity he knew 10 he
threatening
The next morning the storm Tell
upon lhe military mob IN surpris,
that spread CONSERVATION aud death a.
every direction. Men al 7 AIN. were
shot while preparing breakfast, aud
bayoneied in their tents. Il was thr
most irIghtlul confusion aud slsugh-
ter.
There was one point that was not sur.
prlsed, and at which our troops fought
with cool stubborness that had not
been shaken by q surprise. Il hsp
pened to be the key-pOint of the sItuS-
ion held by Colonel WorthingtOn, aud
around this the few men thai could bs
rallied fought that long fearful day
The rest OF the army with Sherman
and, ! suppose, Grant WAS hid
died under the bank OF the river where
the gun.bOals with their heavy pieces,
afforded protection.
II was tuck alone that brought Bnell
aud Nelson With their twenty five
thousand men within hearing Ut the
guns trat sent their continuous roar
over thirty miles. These gallant Off
cers-and God never crea ell bravur
lruer, or more abls men-pu-hed on
and arrived IN time to save what Grim
inal negligence had endangered.
Grant aud Sherman ought TO have
been cOurtmartialed and shot. Iustead
Of this COlouel Tom WOrthinglOn wa.
courtmartialed aud cashlered, Ilad
the old man-like Buell., Nelson, aud Z