St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-28

lame and power were traoSceudent and that
of Grant hardly recognized, whereas in 1854
Halleck had dwindled into a mere chief OF
stan and Grant had earned such renown that
he was enabled to dictate his own terms 70
the president and secretary of war. We are
now told that the road 10 fame and public
favor in America is strewn with the carcasses
OF men who wrote letters. This is true. and
it is equally true that you can not pick up
HASDFUL OF SOIL
which does not contain some part OF which
was once a human being full OF life. hope and
fear, which We all feel. The bread on our
tables contains the phosphate which once was
part OF the embodiment OF an immortal sonl.
Nevertheless must we in our short soiourn
on earth deny ourselves the happiness and
pleasure OF social intercourse and CORES
pondenceE Must we abstain from all COM
munication with family and friend because
some one may uuguardediy or maliciously re-
veal our secret thoughts. Even among the
twelve disciples one proved false, while the
eleven remained true aud spread the gospel
OF peace 10 all the world. Does the enlight-
ened press OF America believe that no honor
able man can serve the governments Il this
to be the result OF our free government.
These are questions which we can leave to
our successors in the Next war" i remem-
Der too well that IN the last war in the midst
OF gloom and tribulations derived from that
public press but little announcement but
from such men as s ;. l.. l.. Hommedieu.
Charles Anderson. Silas F. Miller Of Cincin-
natti James E. Yeatmau, the Rev. w. G.
Elliott and Henry Turner of St Louis, my
heart was armed and my arm strengthened in
the good cause for which we fought. There
fore am willing to be adjudged imprudent
conhding In personal friends rather than to
the public press which must more or less
trim its SAILS TO the surface breezes. Now
give the whole corresI oldence, without
abridgement. and invite especial attention
10 the letter Of Sept. 8. 1855, from which Gen.
Frye made his extract.
SCOTS LETTER.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, lSs6.-Gen. w. I.
Sherman. L. :. Army, st. Louis, Mo-, Dear
General: You and have made ''mess or
IT," you by writing letter 70 me OF great
historic interest and forgetting. and ] by
using the letter for the information of some
OF my friends. On the Both or August last
you wrote TO me for certain information 10
be used In a speech about Allen. Halieck and
Grant / replied Sept. 4, calling your attic u
ton to record evidence on the subject and
commenting upon IL. On sept 8. you re-
Joined, writing, among other things, Us fol-
lows: Now as TO Halleck and Grant, had
the highest possible opinion of Halleck's
knowledge and power and never blamed him
for mistrusting Grants ability. Had q. Y.
Smith lived Grant would have disappeared TO
history after DOnelson- Smith WAS a strong,
nervous, vigorous man when / reported TO
him IL person at Fort Henry" sent both your
letters TO my friend. Gen. Fry. who is deeply
interested IN the history GFdul anu mar
eek. IS very friendly TO both, and who mad,
knew, investigated the very question you
have asked. Fry was struck by your Grant
Smith conjecture and desired II 10 illustrate
one of the points in his Acquaintance with
Grant. As that conjecture was neither ESQ
teric nor hurtful, without hesitation as
scented 10 such use of It. little dreaming il was
Il package OF unlabeled dynamite. Since the
publication OF your Morrison letter, Fry feels
il is incumbent upon him TO prove that he
has not misqUOted on. recognize that ne
cessity. but Gesire that his yindlcation De ac-
complished at "a minimum of annoyance to
you. I enclose copies Of your letters Of
Aug. 20 al d Sep. G. 1888 OF my letter of Sep.
4, 1855, anu OF Fry's letter to me OF the Gath
inst Yours sincerely,
ROBERT n. SCOTT.
THE ORIGIN OF TIE TROUBLE.
CHICAGO, Sept. (August) 80, 1ss5.-Dear
Scott: / am here en- route for Mansfield, o.,
where we have family reunion Thence
20 20 st. Louis preparatory 10 coming again
10 Chicago for the annual meeting Of the
Society of the Army Of the Tennessee Sept.
9, IL. AT that meeting l will be compelled TO
speak somewhat of Gen. Grant, but will try
TO limit myself TO his connection with the
Army of the Tennessee, OF which he was the
first commander. / am somew hat familiar
with the early events of 1862, but there is
one point of which you must have personal
knowledge. When Gen. Halleck reached
Corinth he was compelled by superior orders
from Washington to send the Army of the
Cumberland Gen. Buell., back toward Chat
tanooga and the remaining forces were dis
tributed defensively along the Charleston and
Memphis railroad FROM Corinth 10 Memphis,
Grant being assigned 10 the district of Mem
phs.' Then. when Haileck was himself or
dered 70 Washington, he cast about for his
own successor and fixed on Gen. Robert Allen,
chief quartermaster at ST. Louis. and offered
him the command. i knew OF this fact at the
time from Halleck himself. also from Allen,
and that Allen declined. Have you any per-
sOnal knowledge on this point! Or in Halleck's
letter-bOOks or kilograms do you lind the spe-
cifc orders or inquiriesT Allen is still living
in London, but is too far away for me TO ask
him. Can you
FoRTIFY NY MEMORY
in this particular. will be at GLE Garrison
avenue. ST. Louis, FROM Saturday, Sept 3, TO
Tuesday, Sept. s, and will be personally
obliged If you will answer. With great re-
spect, as always, your friend,
w. T. SHERMAN.
The letter Of Col. Scott of Sept. 4. 1885,
follows. giving information regarding the
Army of the Tennessee al d stating that the
government history of the war up to the
end OF 1868 was ready for the printers. In
his answer of Sept. Gen. Sherman says,
among other things:
THE GOVERNMENT UNJUST.
The government of the United States,
president and congress, have been guilty of
the most cruel act OF I'M Justice Of which his
tory i'm the future will zeal. The govern
ment called TO its service in 1851 81, 600, 900
OF its best men, and showed them By de-
tachments against an organized rebellion.
Newspaper correspondents, suffers, stray
glers and refugees wrote the contemporaries
GUS history whilst every man who went to
fight had a right 10 expect that the govern
ment would protect his fair lame, as dear to
gFr md nfar hlr in
twenty years, and the government history is
still grOOing IN the dull, obscure facts
OF ls6s. See series j. volume xii, part 3.
Now, If one year OF war takes twenty years
10 record. how long will four years takef
Eighty years. / contend, and have con-
tended with European officers OF worldwide
fame, that the military profession of Amer
lea was not responsible for the loose prehmi-
nary operations of lo62, and that IL was not
till after both Gettysburg and Nicksburg that
tue war professionally began Then our
men had learned in the dearest school of
earth the simple lesson Of war. Then we had
brigades, divisions and corps, which could be
HANDLED PROFESSIONALLY,
and IL was then that we as professional
soldiers could rightfully be held 10 u just
responsibility. THIS is the point l shall en-
deavor to make in my memoirs, but never re-
hecting on you personally or officially. hold
the Republican party responsible Instead of
appropriating $1,000, $4,000, etc, for the
war records the annual appropriations should
have been a million in 1865. S2.00O.e00 in
1867 and after, so that by ls70 the work should
have been doce. The Germans we're less
than six years in their official records. Now
as to Halleck-Grant. I had the
highest possible opinion of Hal
leck's knowledge and power and never
blamed him for mistrusting Grants ability.
Had c. r Smith lived Grant would have dis
appeared to history after DOnelson. Smith
was a strong, nervous, vigorous man when
! renorred 70 him in perSOn AZ Fort Henry