Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-05
GEN. SHERMAN.
The Veteran's Recent Talk Abou
 the Administration, Grant and Oth-
From the Chicago Inter- -Ocean.1


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 From the Chicago Inter-O -Ocean.1
 ''I'm soldier, not politician,' said Gen. ''Tecumseh" Sherman, as at the Grand Pa cifc yesterday the old warrior offered his good-natured apology for neither knowing or caring much about politics. Said the gen. e1a1:
 'I am on my way to Lake Minnetonka,
 where my family now is, and I stopped over
 to arrange some matters with Gen. Chetlain re
 garding our reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee that will be held here Sept. and 10. It is all arranged now, and l think we shall have beautiful meeting. We shall not throw it open so much to the general public as heretofore. It is a reunion of soldiers, you see, to talk over old war times and keep alive our old associations, as well the organization itself. Yes, have been its president since it's origin in 1868. How many shall we have here? Oh, yes, over 20O-250, think. The first day we shall transact our private business in some rooms MT. Drake will give us here in the Grand Pacific, and in the evening in some public place, for everybody to hear there will De public address by Gen. Sanborn. The next evening we shall have banquet of the society,""
 The general got to talking about the civil service institution. and he seemed cordially willing to give the system his approval. He declared he believed it in the interest of good government, and it seemed to him to furnish a great relief to Senators and Congressmen, who had but to refer their petitioner for of fee to the civil service commission for an an- swer Said the reporter: General, does it strike you that good many Republican sol diers have been removed from ofice4' ''No," promptly replied the veteran, q don't think there have been. They seem to have been moderate in that, and not to have removed a man except for qualifications" The subject was introduced of Wade Hanptons recent letter regarding the partic- ular service of his troops at Manassas, ,whereat Gen. Sherman speedily said: "Gen. Hamp- son is undoubtedly a truthful man, and I do not question that Imboden is honest, but that battle was ten miles long, from Surrey church to Manassas, and man is liableto write from the position he occupied My men were new and did not have sufficient tenacity; but they were not driven by Jackson; they withdrew, ! and his men were not like stone wall, but | they stood behind a stone wall in fact"
 ''Havs you seen Gen. Grant lately?" | 'sNo, not since December, but I heard ] three days ago from Fred, and they feel very l apprehensive about the general. Save the | cancer in his throat he is sound in his lungs, heart and stomach, and I think he will live l several months yet"
 l ssHe has written valuable book, gen eral?'
 l ooh, yes, ard he has written it mostly | with his own hand, but still it comes too late | that is. do not mean that it is really toe 1 late, but it would have been better if he could have written it 20, 15, or 10 years ago l when he was fresh. man commanding everything is better qualified than colone l to write such book for he knows all things | r in nf al he ia | that had, that have little to add to my l memoirs"
 ssShall you ever publish again?" ''No, I think not, though I may add ar appendix to my memoirs, and perhaps insert I something here and there.
 l ffShal1 you put in something about Jeh Davisa' asked the reporter irrelevantly And the general shot out his reply with g l soldiers edge-hammer emphasis: 4 eff Jeff Davis is patriot, I'm traitor | and ain't. If Jeff Davis is patriot, Abra | ham Lincoln is traitor, and if God evel made a pure man Abraham Lincoln was he Oh. no, I have nothing to do with Davis He was fit to take up something I said to | Grand Army post No, have never me l him. I believe Davis is honest, but his am | bition led him into treason to his country "You think Sheridan will have no troubl with the Indians?'
 s'Oh, no, think not You see the onl way for an Indian to be honest is to kill
 white mans OK. There is no game left; tn
 Indian question will be settled when he i given for his occupation section of lam
 and the remainder invested for his bene
 ft"
 Gen. Sherman got up to wish his visito
 good day The same plain, grizzly old fight
 CT in fatigue dress he remains. He stand
 with his feet together like the soldier he wa
 trained and his tall form appears perfectl
 at ease in black alpaca coat and low-cu white vest, whereupon army buttons declal
 the trade in which ''Tecumseh" Sherma , | he talks with the utmost good humor an Straightforward simplicity. He was speal
 ing of his home in St. Louis, his hous building, and the provision he wished