Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-08-22
WILLIAM 7. SIBERIAN.

The retirement of General Sherman
from the generalship of the United
states army. which will take place in a
/ short time,eives proninenceto his name
as that OF man OF the hour. A review
of his splendid services 20 his country
cannot but awaken recoIiections of in
| terest 10 every reader.
General William Tecumsen Sherman
Is native of Ohio state. He was born
at Lancaster, on the s.h of February,
lc20 He graduated at West Point in
his twenty first year, and saw military
service IN Florida and the war with
Mexico and elsewhere, before resisnine
his commission in the year 1853. Cpon
his retirement from the army be began
business in San Francisco as a banker,
and continued this vocation four years,
intending residence in New York city.
From 1857 to ls59. be prscsiced law In
Leaseuworth, Kansas. During the suc-
cesd1na time up to the secession of the
south from the Union, be acted AZ So
perIntendent of the Louisiana military
academy. His resignation took place
In January, 1851, aud vas almost i'm
nediately followed by his return TO the
army.
The civil var gave Sherman the op-
portunity of distinguished service, and
placed him IN the FROM rank OF living
generals. His first commission was that
q colonel OF q regiment Of infantry.
At the hrst battle of Bull Run he com-
manded a brigade of volunteers, and
vas made brigadier general of voluu-
seers. After serving short time in the
camp OF instruction at St. Louis, he
TOOK part IN the campaign conducted in
the Sfates of tennessee and Mississippi,
oorlnR which he WAS promoted to the
rank OF brigadieY general of the regular
army. In October, 1853. be succeeded
General Grant as commander of the
army department of the Tennessee.
When, in March, 1864, General Grant
was made lieutenant-generaia and eon.
mander Of all the Union forces, Sher
man succeeded him as commander of
the military division of the Mississippi.
This included the entire Southwest,
and his appointment gave him the CON-
mand OF more than Q hundred thousand
enectlve troops with whom to operate
against General j. E. Johnston. He
began the Invasion of Georgia on the
"a OF May. 1854, making his advance
movement at the same time with that
OF Gen. Grant IN the east. His forces
we're superior in number to those of the
general, who, however,
contested the advance
at every possible point. There was
much hard fighting between the two
armies, and 1t was not until September
"a that Atlanta was captured by Major
General Sherman, bat then newly pro-
NOTED to this rank. He occupied the
city with his army for ten weeks, when
he commenced his march to the sea,
having previously dispatched some 40
0O0 men under the command of General
Thomas to repel General Hoods ad-
vance into Tennessee. His remaining
forces consisted of 10000 men, more or
less. In less than q month they had
marched 800 miles without resistance.
bis first fight was at Fort McAllister,
below Savannah, the surrender of
which stronghold preceded that of Sa- |
vannah by eight days. In the middle
Of January, 1866, General Sherman be-
gan his invasion of the Carolinas. His |
march through South Carolina occupied
SIX weeks. In North Carolina he en-
countered considerable opposition, and
fought two pitched battles. Goldsboro'
was occupied on the 22d Of March, 1866;
Raleigh, on April the 18th. On the 18th |
OF April General Johnston surrendered
to Sherman on the same terms as had
been granted General Lee by General
Grant. This surrender virtually closed |
the war.
General Sherman continued in COM
mand of the military division of the |
Mississippi year after the end of the
with the rank of maior-gen
eral in the regular army. He was pro-
NOTED to be Northumberland when, |
in July, 1866, Grant had been made |
general of the army. His command |
as before. Sherman sue
ceeded Grant as general of the armv in |
March, 1869, after the election of the |
first named to the Presidency. He |
spent part of 1871 and 1872 abroad, in |
Europe and the East. Upon his return
he made his headquarters at Washing
ton, but removed to st. Louis in 1874. |
General Sherman has contributed to the |
history of the United States by the pub |
location of his menoirs, in 1875. He is |
q well preserved man Of good presence,
q ready and able speaker, aud is con-
sidered to possess a capacity for affairs |
as well as Surprising military ability.