The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-02


Sherman well knows that the measure of a
man in Washington is not his zeal as
Courtier in the arts and graces OF hollow
ness, hypocrisy and snobbery" He has
found some newspaper writer's in st. Louis.
1t is the place where McCulagh lives, of
whom General Sherman not long since said:
There is McCullagh, OF the Globe-Democrat.
He is treacherous cuss. He used to worm
secrets out of the army officers, and then
give them away. He has got brains, but
tell you I would not like to hang my coat on
his rack" Unless General Sherman intends
to live as a recluse in ST. Louis, he may yet
find his coat on McCullagh's rack. 1t was
McCullagh who, being called by General
Sherman spy at Shiloh, made this neat
point in the review of Sherman's memoirs:
unfortunately for him, in one little para
graph of his official report he unwittingly
justified the worst that the newspapers have
ever said. quote from page % OF Shermans
Memoirs, vol. |:
"'About A. n. glistening hayonets of
heavy masses of infantry to our left front, In the
woods beyond the small stream alluded to, and
became satisfied for the first time that the enemy
designed a determined attack on the whole
camp
Now bear in mind that at the time men
! toned by General Sherman Is A. M the bat
tie of Shiloh had really been in progress for
two hours General Sherman had been
pressed by $4,000 men for two hours before
| he realized that an attack was intended, and
/ y
Shiloh were spies and liars If he was not
| surprised he must have known all along
| that Johnston and his army were there, and
| If he knew they were there, what did he sup
pose they came for and why did it take him
two hours to find out that they had come
| there to fight"
HIS DOMESTIC LIFE.
| In 1877 Mrs. Sherman removed to ST.
Louis, taking her household goods, and Gen
eral Sherman soon followed, removing for q
time the army headquarters there. The re-
| lations between General Sherman and Gem
eral Belknap, who was then Secretary of
War, were not pleasant. General Belknap
insisted upon being Secretary of War; and
Sherman could not have his own way in
army matters, as he much liked to do. The
reasons which General Sherman then
gave for his retirement to St. Louis
were that he might be nearer to the
scene of his activity. There were family rea-
| sons why General Sherman wished to live
! there. 1t is his old home. He has house
| there. Some of his children are there in bust
! ness for General Sherman determined that
his sons should not become soldiers with his
| consent Unfortunately for his peace OF mind,
| one of his sons has not followed the occupa-
ton that mis- father wished, for he has not
| become a soldier, but priest. This is the
skeleton in General Sherman's household.
| General Sherman is a warm-hearted, affec-
| tonate man, particularly fond of his chill
| dren He had expected to see his son have
! brilliant career at the bar, and the announce
! ment of his intention to enter monastery
| as a member of the order of Jesus, was
: great blow to him. This son, the eldest had
been educated here in Washington for the
bar and afterwards was graduated at the
Yale Law College. and had entered the law
toeina of TuHCa Rebpr in ST I,OuiS Rnt Mrs
General Sherman is devout Catholic. Her
| name is familiar at Rome, and
she for many years has been the
custodian in this country of Peters pence.
Shortly before his death the late Plus *
| sent to her rosary and a crucitix of solid
gold, and in the cruciix is set fragment of
the true cross" Her home is always the
headquarters of the dignitaries of the Cath
Ole Church. and she is consulted upon all
matters pertaining to that church. General
Sherman. it is scarcely necessary to say. is
not a Catholic. He is said to have never
| been inside Catholic church for years until
his daughter was married in one. The de-
termination of Thomas Ewing Sherman, the
eldest son, to enter the church was due. of
course, TO his mothers influence, and Cen
eral Sherman did not know the fact till Just
before it was about to be accomplished.
There was a rumor at the time that young
Sherman entered the church because of the
marriage of his cousin to Don Cameron.
This, however, the family positively deny.
The con, to spare his fathers feelings at this
J change in his career, wrote letter for pub
LEGATION which contained the following
NY father, you know ia not a Catholic and
| therefore the step am taking seems start
ling and serange to him as I have no dount it
does to you, my dear sir. go without his APP
! proYal, SANCTION or consent ana In direct OPP
position to his wishes. He had formed other
plans for me, WHICH are now defeated, and had
hopes and expectations which are dashed to
the ground Ihaye, in conclusion, a request to
MAKE and make it not only TO you. hut to all
orr friends and relatives to whom you may
fit to show this letter or to communicate it's
| contents. 1t is this: Feeling painfully aware
| that have grieved my father beg my friends
and his. of whatever religion they may be, to
spare him inquiries or comments of any sort. for
| anything of the kind would be ill-timed an In
appropriate.
Thomas e. Sherman is young man of
good ability. Not many months ago he de-
| livered lecture at Loyola College, Baltimore,
in defense of the Spanish inquisition. Young
| Sherman was so Jealous for his faith that ne
insinuated that the Spanish Catholics were
| less cruel than the New England Puritans,
| and he fatty asserted that the founders of
Plymouth and Salem burned people at the
stake and INDUCED in other horrible butch
cries which the Inquisition did not'-a
statement which young Sherman, with a
| little research into some verv recent litera-
ture, might have found to be wholly untrue.
I The lecture shows that the young man will
certainly display the family zeal in the
cause of the Jesuits which he has espoused.
But sharp difference in religious matters
/ seems to have caused no arrangement in
family noted for its domestic virtues. Not
long since some Southern paper accused
Gen. Sherman of applying the torch to
factory in South Carolina and monastery.
Mrs. Gen Sherman herself published a card
| in which she Indignantly said: Il say that
Gen. Sherman never was guilty of blasphemy
or profanity. and the men knew when they
published that article that he had never APP
piled the toarch to a building" Gen. Sher-
man has six children. Miss Lizzie, nnmar-
ried. is the constant attendant OF her mother
and is probably the stay OF the family circle.
| Minnie. the second daughter. is married to