The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-26

Dent knew that he loved her, as she
had always hopelessly longed to be
loved.
And she had come into the bless
ed inheritance of her womanhood at
last.
Grant and Sherman at VIcksburg
General Sherman's portrait is the
frontispiece of the January Century,
and 10 commemorate his retirement
from the army, the magazine prints
an anecdotal sketch of his life, by E.
V. Smalley. General Grant has
helped to make the paper authori-
tative by giving information and by
reading the proofs. The cordial re-
lations of the two leading generals
of the war are indicated in the fol-
lowing extract:
Certain incidents connected with
the Vicksburg campaign of 1868 are
well worth narrating here, as show
ing General Sherman's lack of jeal-
ousy and egotism which marred the
characters of many of the generals
of the late war. All that rainy win
ter, when the country along the Mis-
sissippi was flooded, and the army
was inactive, General Grant held to
a purpose, never once divulged TO
any person. of sending the fleet past
the Vicksburg batteries when the
spring opened, and throwing his
army below the town to invest it
from the South. When fair wealth
er came, he secured the co-opera-
ton of Admiral Porter, and then is
sued his orders to his division COM
manders. Sherman's part in the
plan was to 90 up the Yazoo and
make feint against Haine's Bluff
When he received his orders, he
hastened to Grants headquarters
and argued against what seemed 4
very hazardous move. He thought
Grant was placing himselfin Il posi-
ton where an enemy would have
unanswered a year to get him--a
hostile force on both sides of him,
and ole of them between him and
his base of supplies. Sherman fail
ed to convince Grant, who had been
cut off from his base at Oxford some
months before, and had learned that
he could subsist an army upon the
country. Besides, he believed that,
in the critical condition Of opinion
in the North, great risk ought to
be taken for the prospect of a great
success. In a letter to Rawlins,
Grants chief of staff, written next
day, Sherman reiterated his objec-
tions to the plan of campaign. The
letter was shown to Grant and re-
mained unanswered. With perfect
loyalty to his chief. and without the
least feeling of resentment for the re-
lection Of his plan of falling back on
Memphis and operating on the line
of the railroad, Sherman carried out
his plan of the campaign as Jealous
ly and energetically as though the
whole scheme had been his own.
During eighteen days of forced
marches and fighting and forty nine
davs of siege, he did not once take
off his clothes 10 sleep.
After Grants forces had crossed
the Big Black, Sherman was given
the lead in the advance upon Vicks-
burg. These two generals rode out
one morning ahead of the marching
columns, careless of the occasional
bullets that came whistling by from
squads OF retreating rebel pickets.
They reached the top Of Walnut
Hill, where Pemberten, the Confed-
crate general, had occupied the year
before, and which Sherman had in
vain assaulted from the low land in
front. There Sherman exclaimed
with enthusiasm
Grant, this is the biggest cam
paign in history. You ought to
write report on it at once. Napo-
leon never made a campaign like
this"
A few days later. when Sherman
was holding the lines facing east
from the Big Black to Haines' Bluff,
Governor Yates came down from
Illinois to visit the camps, accom-
panied by all the State officers. AS
Grant was passing along the lines
one day, he came upon Sherman,
whose back was towards him, and
who was saying to a knot of Illinois
visitors:
This is the greatest campaign in
history, and Grant deserves all the
credit for it. | wrote him a letter
before we started, in opposition to
the whole plan"
Now, the letter was never sent to
the War Department, nor made
public in any way, and Sherman
need not have mentioned it but he
was not willing to have any credit
given to him which belonged to
Grant.