The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-01
HIS MILITARY CAREER.
A Glowing Tribute to His Vaior and Capac
ity-The March to the Sea.

"A Glowing Tribute to His Vaior and Capac-
ity-The March to the Sea.
London Times.
General Sherman and the United States
seem equally to suffer a hardship from the
rule which deprives him of the command of
the army on the 1st of November. At the
age of sixty-three he is, though the senior by
two years of General Grant, still in the vgor
life. He could plan war or head charge
as well as twenty years back But rules are
not made for exceptional cases, though they
have to apply to them. The obligatory re-
tirement of General Sherman in November
from his active duties and his removal in
February from the active list furnish the
best precedents for the compulsory dismissal
hereafter of superannuated veterans from
posts they would fan cling to. General
Sherman leaves in General Sheridan a COM
rade whom he can trust to enforce upon
American statesmen the right of the army,
in his judgment, to more consideration and
larger expenditure,than it at present receives.
General Sherman understands that the pc
culiar position of his country contracts with
in the narrowest limits the opportunities of
the military profession for official distinction
and practice. He has had his turn, and
long one, and will not grudge his companion
in arms his succession. Like the majority
of his versatile fellows in the great civil war,
he has learned other trades than generalship,
and may be presumed therefore, to have inn
bibed other tastes beside it. He was a banker
and he was lawyer before he showed him
self consummate strategist Although he
is not likely to go back to the till or bar, he
can resume the interests which thus found
their development. As much organizing
power is required to govern an American
raily RI can
He has proved in his memoirs that he can
write His recollectionS must be far from
exhausted. 1t is possible to smoke esew here
than in a general-in-chiefs bureau; and
smoking, if rumor has not illuminated him,
is serious occupation for General
Sherman. Were every other avocation
used up or practicable there is always n
course OF European travel. All illustrious
Americans owe it TO the world and them
selves to visit and revisit the hemisphere
from which their race sprang. When Gen
eral Sherman comes, Europe, it is to he
hoped, will be unable TO crafty him with
the spectacle of bloody battles and the fail
aud rise of empires. But its preparations for
war are abundantly sufficient for experience
and Imagination such as General Sberman's
to reproduce picture of their application.
His welcome, at any rate, is ready Tor him as
soon as he chooses to claim it. Europe will
be grateful for the rule which closes brill
liant professional career if it induce its first
ilustrious victim to cross the Atlantic. 1t
is as curious to see the men whose work the
mighty republic in its present state is as
America is curious to study those who keep
the old world rs it has been.
The prodigiors struggles in which the
present General of the United States army
ard his successor, and their predecessor,
General Grant, won their glory, is ancient
history, in one sense. European wars are
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