The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-11
THE GENERAL OF The ARMY.
His Popularity in Washington - The Gem
erals Varied Life.

washington special
General Sherman will not be sixty-four
years old until the 9Th of next February,
but he will resign the command of the army
the end of this month His family has
already gone to st. Louis, and he will follow
as soon as General Sheridan is fairly installed
at the War Department, where he will hold
his place for twelve years to come and then
give way, if both live, to General Terry. All
Washington is sorry to have bluff old General
Sherman go away. He has been one of the
few war celebrities who has held his own
with the people. He is to-day so nearly like
his brother, John Sherman, that many mis-
take one for the other. The General never
wears an overcoat, In the toughest
weather he may be met tramping
around with the little cape over his
shoulders which he believes is the
only thing for an officer to wear Every one
knows him. He probably has been to more
dinner parties the past dozen years than any
man in public life. seat is always at his
disposal, and many are the stories aaoat of
his happening in at dinner, to which no in
ytation had been sent him, but where he
knew he would be welcome. Then his own
| door has always stood open, especially to
army people; and more than one young
| officer will miss the old sign, General Sher-
| mans office" which has so many wears hung
in the front of his Fifteenth-street home.
| The only ones who will be glad TO have him
GO are the civil attaches of the War De-
pertinent from the Secretary down.
| He has lorded 1T over them ever since he
| took General Grants place, and has
always carried his points. More than
one clash of authority has been the result
| but the old soldier never gave up, and the
| haI 70 Chor IL,
will be any more tractible is question. He
has been SO long a subordinate at Chicago
| that it will be difficult to assume the au-
thority which his superior has exercised.
| The Sherman family has been a remarkable
one, but the next generation does not prom
| Use so well. Senator Sherman has DO children
of his own. The General has two sons and
four daughters. His elder son, Thorn as
promised we'll, but he is in the Roman
priesthood, at which his father is grievously
disappointed. for he thinks little of the
church. The younger boy, Tecumseh. is
| only youth in school. Two of the daugh-
tiers are still unmarried, and glad of the pros
pect of quiet in st Louis after the years of
| fatigue incident upon their life here. The
General will continue to draw about SIS 900
in salary and allowances and looks forward
to years of comfort and leisure. 1t is not
likely that any formal demonstration
will be made on his departure, as he does not
wish it, He will simply go away, and Gen
eral Sheridan will come here and occupy the
handsome Adds house on Rhode Island
avenue, which his Chicago friends purchased
for him last spring. Very few people know
what a varied life General Sherman has led.
He left the army in 1854, when lieutenar
and went into the banking business Ia san
Francisco In three years the frm Jailed.
He went into law partne~sAip il Leayen-
worth. Kan, with Tom Ewing ,dd left that
after year. In 1865 ~ AS terribly hard
pushed. His fataer-in-iaS, MIR. Ewing. had
been Secretary OF tlie Interior in President
Taviors Cabinet when one of his colleagues
was Charles Wickliffe, of Kentucky, and the
iatters son was now Governor Wickliffe of
Louisiana He had also known Captain
Sherman when he was stationed at
New Orleans. His aid was invoked, and
through his influence the ex-captain was
made superintendent of the State military
school at "a, 900 year. He was strong DEM
ocrat but when the war broke ont he came
North although offered a brigader's COM
mission in rebeldom. General Bragg was the
bearer of the proffer. but he says that Gen
eral Sherman seemed never to dream of ac-
cepting it, Those who were intimate with
him at the time, say that it was his wife, old
Thomas Ewing's daughter, who kept his
loyalty bright in those days, and those who
know her are ready to believe it. Sherman
had considerable difficulty in getting rank in
the Union army. For two years he was called
Mad Tecumseh" and it was only when
merits were recognized and he was pushed
ahead. The two men have ever since been
close friends, and General Grant never comes
to Washington without calling on his old
lieutenant