Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-04

our ground against superior numbers" and |
covering every vital point. Lew Wallace |
arrived with 5000 men before Buell. APP
peared, and General Grant ordered him !
(Sherman) to assume the offensive the
next morning at daylight. In fact, Buell.
did not reach the ground until the first
days fight was entirely over, and his army,
which had been moving leisurely, came by
command of Grant, and so little did it
have to do that day april 9TH that it lost
but one man killed and two wounded. The
next days battle, Sherman declares, was a
4" walk-over" for the Union forces He
adds, with grim faeetiousness, "We did
not know that we had been surprised and
slaughtered in our beds. But towards, and
fugitives, and men who never commanded
brigade, spread the story northward to
the newspapers, that the armies of Grant
and Sherman had set down like parcel
of towards to be knocked over with
clubs" As TO how much Of this and the
succeeding like bitter denunciation is in
tended for General Fry, the reader is left
to Judge. Sherman adds that General
Grant told him he had noticed Fry's
" assumptions" about the Shiloh fight, but
in his own volume he should confne him
self to a simple statement Of facts. Sher-
man adds that Fry loves notoriety and
controversy, is wordy but not profound,
and wants to be considered General Buell's
mouth-piece and the champion of the
Army of the Cumberland He closes by
repeating the demand for Fry to substan-
tiate his charge. January 10th Sher-
man wrote once more to denounce
Fry as one who, when cornered, will dodge
the issue. As to the charge made. he
says he meets thousands of people and
writes many letters, and that he may have
speculated as to what might have been had
General c. F. Smith lived and had Gen.
Grant gone to the rear after " Henry" and
Done!son" or " Shiloh" but that he
ever questioned his ability and his peculiar
qualities is impossible" He added, that
evidently General Fry invented the quo
tation to show his friendship after death
for the man whom in life he attempted to
malign." On the 10Th he wrote to Rev.
Geo. Morrison, of Baltimore, in answer to
inquiry about the matter, in which he re-
peated that it was impossible that he could
have said what Fry attributed to him.
He might have speculated, as all men do,
as to what might have BEEN; as, for
instance, what he might have been had
Washington accepted his warrant in the
English navy, etc; but that he could have
made the positive expression charged he
declares was and is impossible. He hopes
in good time to learn on what authority
| Fry's statement is based. The last letter
in this correspondence is from General
Fry, dated January 10Th, in which he re-
peats that if General Sherman denie,
using the language, he FRY will furnish
direct proof of its correctness, since Gen
Sherman only repudiates an opinion
which he (Frv) had not attributed to him
and ''there IS a wide difference between re
pudiating an opinion and denying the ex
preston of it, The judgment of the i'm
partial reader must be that Sherman ha
cornered Fry, that the demand of tn
former for the authority of the latter is
reasonable request, and if Fry has any au
thority for it it is his duty, having mad
the charge, to furnish it.
THE Oakland Times, referring to state
ment that during the recent revival of re
ligion in this city several hundred con
verts We're secured to the churches, ex
claims: Truly there is some hope for Sac
ramento after ALL" Yes, but how sad t
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