, 1881-07-24
M'PHERSON'S STATUE.
Speeches OF Gen. w. 7, Sherman
and Gen. Be|knap at the .
Unvei'ing.
Letters from Gems. Sheridan, Hancock,
Logan, Howard, and Other
Distinguished Men.

.
| Logan, Howard, and Other
Distinguished Men.
| Special Dispatch to The Chicago T~ibun4
CLYDE, O.. July s}.-Foliowln4 is portion o1
ticn Shernau's speech not forwarded Yesterday:
Another or my trio Of young heroes, Cnlyille
>. Minor, was attached to our company, F, Tusrd
| Artillery Just as we were c,ubark.ng t,n the
Lexington fnr California. he. too, was fresh
from IT. 1,,,! West Poin1 native Of The District
I OF Columbia; tall. stron1, and athletic, full
the isolero.' wh.lst on shipboard he was the
youngest OF our group, the gayest, ray uf light
and d bond Of g.,od fellowship a1nonx US ull'
| After tOug aud tedious voyage arnund Cape
Horn OF oyer six muntbs. OH Jan. %, 1877, we
town, wherein Miner soon Lecutne the fuvurit,
! nnd WAS known us Clandamir'. saint nnlonI,
dangers. !n the summer Of 1si7 had to 20
! iotlnd him SICK of typhoid fever. and all the
| people-nen and wt,1l.n-contended for the
! privilege of nursing him. III his own botpe he
| couiu not have re''eivcd more kindly attention,
| but nti was uiiayaIitng. Tie sank gradually, and
on the 18th u August. lS47, went "ut shat young
| a real hero In the desperate days whtch huve
| since occurred. When last autumn President
Hayes n''d his gay party drove by the little
tuthbledwn pAlmE fence which tnarks the spot
| where thrty-ihree years before We had
| BURIED MINOR By THE LONELY PINES
which yet breathe his requiem, they did not, they
| could not, know how felt when .hut spot Ut
! goun1 rcca!led the memory Of tnnt young life.
whicn w'ts part Ut the price our Nation hud pad
| tor tue conquest or Casfnrna My Third young
hero lies buried here ut Clyde, O., in the orchard
! where he played ns u buy. He TOO died young,
only 35 yeurs old, and was Of the kind whom the
| Ends dld iovr exceedingly well. You. his neigh
Of ni1n In muuhood, bur somehow think t,,,.u
| inaS not be prophet or Il hero In his own home.
xou k"eW hts genaI; hearty nanre bis attach
MT see the HllH as hA}E sGcH him, in 1fflle,
; when every muscle and every tissue in
full action. when tile heroic qualities shone out
as star In the darkest night. L be-
lleve l knew Mcpherson better thun any
q; sy.n, you: ana ,si~ oi this | must testify:
City, citizen, agent for eertasn hankerss of St.
Louis fnunt my friend. Muj, John Il.
Barnnra. Un1cd States Engineer, nunrtercd in
hs"isen Prince street. MT far from Drnad-
way, and, to be nctr min, l touk roouls there.
In thnt same huuse
! FOUND LIEUT.. MCPHERSON,
of the engineer corps ot the army. We were
usually out durtug tho daytime. but every nitut
we met In HhrnArtls ruuin, or i'll mine, nud gos-
sipcd nf the topics Of interest ut that day. I
was naturally attached to him because
Ing; also. bcc,,;,se no was from nhio,
and had graduated head OF his class at West
Point. There It was our tlrst acquaintance bc-
gan. ann il continued without interruption until
saw MIN last nt.ve III the Howard Home. near
Atlantis, Ga. whence sent his body to his
home here At Clyde. O.. tor burial. Frun New
York !ntc in lsl' he WIS ordered to California.
and when tho CIVIL VAR broke out in lssl nc
came oAck. and again we met in St:
!" Geu na!seek Before the battle ot
Shiloh he was with Gen. Grant
ut Henry nnl Donelson, ind afterwards was
sent with me up the Tennessee RIVER ns staff
officer to represent, hrst, Gen. C. f. Smith. and
lnter- Gen. Grant, III the attempt to reach the
Charleston t2ni!rs'a,l ut iurilsv:iEe, and then to
nsetnDark 1t plttSburE Landing preliminary TO
tho great campaign ther. to begin. There mu5l
be mauy pe"pc here-l know there is one
GEN. r. ?. BCCkLASD-
who remembers how intimate md friendly We
1t. Mct'uersnn always sta!d at my ca!np.
and never Iaited TO visit tue Seventy -second
ONO. belonging TO my division, i'll which res-
tnent he hnd many Old nriEhbors uud friends
from this same town Of Clyde. Mcpherson WIS
still ut that time Technically al ..tlde-de-Ca1.!p
ot Geu Huileck. who renamed ut st. Lo.. !. hut
he had wiss-iy permitted his yonng. enterpr:slng.
aud gallant engineer officer tu Rn ahead. us he
al",ss ~anted 10 &C. with the advance of tho
rcconnultercd all the ground tn the front, far
Twelve nlie, to the right md left and when tha
chiefly MCPHERSON tar the topograph'cal
knowiedEe OF the battlefield and its srrrount1-
Jugs. Mcl'hcrson, however. was not content 70
remain IN the Capacity IF staff officer, but
sought for command to do nc1s. and not merely
tu advise. His natural plAce wa5 ns = leader ot
men. the highest sphere IN military life. This
Ur,gulierG GcnerAl and Major r-Grneral ut Co.
rin.h. oxford. Vicksburg. Chattanooga. and
.Atlanta. he performed deeds which nre fully re-
corded and places his nhme must hunorabiy and
worthiy in the cntatoE ut the great Generals
OF mi. world. TN this occasion it would not he
proper fur III dinte on these thames, al
though it would be
a LABOR OF LOVE.
Events followed each other with such quick sue
cess.on that ut this distance VI time afl seem
projected istu one grand result; sut the years
lNit and lsGi were bi:, with events wLicn will IN
tlleuce tue destiny Of America for centuries 10
come Days were rs mouths and months as
years Of ordinary time, NcPhersoi. r e I,Ia
to he corps ct',stnander, III Army comm a1ldtr.
promotion AS rapid is ever marked rhe pit'EreSs
of the mighty men In the days IF Napoleon:
hut. like hrisnnt meteor. lnycd uf the gods, /
his young life Went OUT bct1re we bad achieved !
the fun measure of tue work dcnsnudcd OF shy |
buried here within few feet Of whe re We stand,
bill, tho spir.t. the genius, Of 1he man survive,
and MILLIONS VI! award MIN fn'l sh"re NJ TIE !
young LIE. so n"by and so heroically., ].
his c,ln punfon. frienu. aud senior, Easc been !
spared n few years.-suu, could recall him 10
life now, l ws;,l1,l not. He sleeps we'll. \ nu.
ton has adopted hin Ms one Of her heroes, an1
long utter We are g"ne. and It may be for.',t;en
young men will gather about his cut1rstr an
statue in Washington. and 1his one at Clyde,
Ohio, aud say to themselves:
"HElzf,1.D THE TYrE OF MAN |
who rescur'i us from anarchy, who died
that America might attain her truc
lnu.c in the glory OF nations. and
whose virtues, hGrt>'SN. and seIt -saCrlfte
we must initiate. The artist nlay uln!el his
form. the painter may reproduce his likeness,
and the Historian nArrnte his Deeds hf none t
save hrs comrades Ia, battle Cun feet the worth
If n.a living genius anu character. We must
soon pass away und lt'te hin uls'IlC in his glory,
but before VT 70 should attempt to epitoluizc
this FANG. md I have s.MlEht elsewhere for
words fitted to tue subject. but cunnut md any
hin:. tnnre appropriate than what | myself |
xyute the day utter tbs death. When the |
sounds OF battle still tfnndcre1 In lny
learsng, when my heart wHs torn fur the loss NJ
, conratE. and friend IN shsln bad leaned. In
yhoSc keeping hud beeu the fate 1T one Ut our
resi- armies, and Whs,Se heart S-b!oDu still !
1.i1,cl the hant. with which wrote. rhero-
orc beg to reproduce my own report Of his
ieth, made after / had consigned hsm IN tno
:ure ut his LOVING aides to be brought here to
clyde. for iHtcriitcnt. I
''fiEAuQTAKTEl,S MILITARY DIVISION Of THE |
MISSISSIPPI, IN TIL. FtEl... SE.tE. ATLANTA, Ca.
uly H. lXjt.-Io ten. l.. Thomas. Adjutant-Gc'a~
..u. Enlftd Stu{fs -fTnv. HtSi,,Hy"l, H.. c. I I
iESEHAi.: Il ls my painful duty IL report that
3r1 Gen. Jull,sts t. tcf'ncrspn, Enited States
Irtny Najur- General Of volunteers And conn
luntler Ut the Army Of the Tennessee. Was
jlf.d by Il shut from ntnbusts1,1e about noon vi
cs1ersl:.y AT the time oi this fatal shot he wus
/, horseback placing his troops III position tscar
Dad from Il moving column towards TUG s
unk Of troops tnat hnd a1rca.F been ,
s,nbshcd OIL the line. He had
u,tte.l Inc hui few moments before. und Wis T.
!, his way to seq in person. to the execution Of c
r4F ffttA AAft+