The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-02-03

IN this case the action suggested in your letter.
At the same lime he n OF opinion that the cues
zion raised IL one OF good manners and proper
eral Fry % military discipline.
am, General, very respectfully, your ooedient
servant, 4. q. DEuN.
Then follows two letters from General
Sherman, as follows
9l2GAERIsoN AVENUE. ST. LouIs, Jan. u.
Alien Thorndyke Rice, Esq, North American Re
DEAR SAL have the Review for January and
notice the manner in which you treat the Sher-
but you do not know Frye as well as Grant and
aid. He invented that quotation 70 set up a man
Of straw for the honor of knocking i down.
General Grant always regarded him Fryel as one
OF the men most active in spreading the lies
about us at ShIloh-"suprise,' "bsyo-
Melted IN our beds ''demoralized.''
bank" etc. etc. and his December articles show
that Hrant listened 10 him. as he could not help
10 Van Nost-and Tor little book, published in
1854, The Army Under Buell. Frye, on page ::
During the seven months, including the winter
season, ne tBuell) organized and disciplined an
army which had no superior, etc: moved with
the main body of mis- army u PittsbuTg Landing,
rescued General Grants army al the battle of
Shiloh. and converted thIis disaster OF the
hrst day on that memorable field into
victory victory on me second day. Again on page 10:
the Tennessee, under Grant, and OF the Ohio,
under Buell., concentrated at Pittsburg Landing.
on the Tennessee, when being attacked the
9Th of April, they gained the victory Of Shiloh"
Then turn 10 Grants Memoirs pages $50 and
81 and read his plain. truthful narrative: Gen
eTal Buell. did not reach the field OF battle until
the first day was over. He came out to me- Il mile
and a half from the landing after dark, with
trYe and Others and | talked with both.
On that first day we had fought from
morning till night short OF one division OF our
army Jew Wallacc's). had sustained a loss of
an Il 10 To
holding our ground against superior numbers
and covering every vital part of our position"
tory at night. Lew Wallace having arrived with
1000 men before Buell. appeared, General Grant
ordered me id person To assume the offensive the
next morning at daylight.
Now. the morning of the 9TH of a ril Wal
lace was only sixty miles of, and we expected
him mOmentarily: still he did not cross the bridge
which covered till night One division OF Buell'S
army tSelson's which had marched from Nash
Vile TO savannah was there on the evening OF
April D, and General Grant ordered it to march to-
ward Pittsburg Landing. The ieing was heard ut
savannah early the morning OF the 9TH, yet the Iii
vision did not start till the afternoon of the 18th,
and it's advancing brigade tAmmen'sl only
reached the Landing after dark. after
the days battle was over, losing, Genera, Grant
describes, two men killed and one wounded. OF
fetal repOrt-one killed, two wOunded.l That
night the rebels were much demoralyzed and
more than we Buell. got up two other divisions
,Crittenden's and McCOok'sl ana the battle on the
9Th was walk over" the losses being not one
fourth oi the day before. We were everywhere
We did not know that we had been surprised
and slaughtered in our beds. We believed we had
defended our position till reinforcements. near
and long eNpectep, did arrive, until the news
papers came from the North full ana complete.
Our families mOurned Us as dead, with the blush
of shame that we had sat down like parcel of
towards 20 be knocked over with clubs These
accounts were written by towards and fugitive
who fed from the field, and did not stop
until they reached PadHcah. Cairo and Cinc,n-
natl. Their accounts were verified 10y nten who
never commanded even brigade. and who
reached the battlefield from the rear, also pre-
senting a sickeninS sight, and who sent forth
their reports damaging TO the brave and gallant
men OF the Army of Tennessee, who did fight
hard and successfully on the 9th OF April, 1873.
General Grants account is as near correct and
true a. any single man who was on the field can
make it can have no newspaper controversy
with General Frye or anybody else. II ayeTtable,
but when Frye sent me ms volume before re
ferred to, called his attention 70
sent the letter through General Grant,
who August t. 1SSi, wrote me that he, too, mad
noticed Frye's assumptions but in his Isenl-
oires he would cOnnne himself 10 the simple
sintement of facts. Frye loves nOtorety, ccntro-
| yesy; is wOrdy. but not profound. He wants 70
be considered Buell's mouthpiece and the cham
pion Of the Army OF the Cumberland. He quotes
me- refuses 10 give me the source OfhiS quotation,
but admits his Liability to issue wiz be pleased
II yOu call on him 10 substantiate his questions.
Very truly yours, etc, W. T. SIERNAN.
M. 40 GARRISON, AVENUE,
ST lOUIs. Mo. January 10, 1855.
Allen Thorndyke Rice, Esq, Editor North Ameri-
DEAR slr-I approve your comment wholly.
can have no controversy with General Frye, who,
in my Judgment, is man OF words, not OF deeds;
who. when cOrnered, will dodge the issue and
run off INFO an entirely different matters. write
hundreds of letters OF which have no copies.
meet thousands of people with whom I sEn COM
| PEELED 10 converse, and with these / might have
/ speculated 20 what might have been had
General Z. +. Smith lived, and had General Grant
gone 20 the rear after the battles OF Henry and
| DOnelson OF SHILOH but that l ever questioned
his peculiar qualities and abilities is simply i'm
| possible. You know that asked through you OF
General Frye 10 give me the source OF his quota
| ton not only once, but twice and ne wanted the
matter 10 remain as it was, when he knew that
felt agrieved at what believed a false quotation
| Yet up TO this day he has withheld 8 COM
! plianee with that simple request. OF course,
| believe he invented the quotation
| Tor the purpose Of questioning it, and showing
| his friendship after death for the man whom in
| life he attempted TO mallgn.
With great respect.
Your friend W. T. SHERMAN.
The last letter IN the list is the one from
| General Sherman to Rev. George Morrison,
of Baltimore, previously published in the
newspapers in which General Sherman de-
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