The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-02-16
THE DEAD HERO.

was eOucaUeO IN Lne 1am1Iy OF Ine hon.
Thomas Erwing until he had reached
the age of 16, when he went to West
Point, and graduated In 1910; he then
entered the U. S. Army, and was pro-
NOTED to the rank of first lieut.. in 1841.
He acted as assistant adjutant general,
in 1S47, and obtained breyit of captain
in the regular army from May, 1s48, for
meritorious services in California during
the war with Mexico. He was appoint
ed commissary of subsistence in 1850,
served at st. Louis and New Orleans,
but finding his pay inadequate to support
his family, resigned his commission
September 9th, 1858, and removed to San
Francisco when he was a partner in
bank till 1858, when he returned to st.
Louis and was elected superintendent of
the Louisiana State Military Institution,
which position he resigned when the
Civil War began. After the fall of Fort
Sumpter he was commissioned colonel of
the 18th infantry, and commanded the
3rd brigade at the unfortunate battle of
Bull Run, on the 2lst of July 1851. On
the reorganization of the National army,
Colonel Sherman was made brigadier
general of volunteers, and accompanied
General Anderson to Kentucky, where
he succeeded him temporarily in COM
mand, until at his own request he was
relieved by General Buell., and was or
dered to Missouri. In the early part of
1862, he was appointed to the command
of division under General Grant, and
acted with great bravery at the battle of
Shiloh on the 9th of April he was pro-
NOTED to the rank of major general on
the 1st day of May, and when the de-
partment of Tennessee was formed, in
December, he was made commander of
the 10Th army corps. AT the end of that
month, he led an expedition to Vicks-
burg, but the works were too strong to
be taken by assault, and he was obliged
to withdraw his troops, after a severe
fight. He commanded the wing of the
army that captured Fort Hindman, Ar
kansas, January 10th, 1868, after which
he resumed command of the 18th army
corps took part in the siege of Yicks-
burg, which capitulated July 3rd 1868,
and led the expedition which captured
JdChSOH S1Cy Jul 1OIu.
When General Grant was placed in
command of the army previously under
General Rosencrantz, he gave the COM
mand of the department of the Tennes-
see to General Sherman, who encoun-
tered General Longstreet, and obliged
him to retreat, November Goth, and in
February, 1864, made his expedition to
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important railroad center, driving Gen
eral Folks army out of Mississippi.
Having been charged with the command
of the army in Georgia, May 4th 1864,
he commenced the expedition through
that state, which ended in the capture
of Atlanta, the capital city.
General Hood thrice attacked the Fed
eral army, and was repulsed, sustaining
considerable loss. After his third fail
ure, General Hood acted merely on the
defension in Atlanta, which fell into the
hands of the Nationals in the beginning
of September. In October Hood began
his movement towards Tennessee.
Sherman followed him as far as Resacca,
rs miles, drove him from the railroad
and then sent part of his army to Ten
nessee to defend that State, and with the
balance began his wonderful "March to
the Sea-" to act in concert with the
Union army in Virginia against General
Lee. The distance from Atlanta to
Savannah is 260 miles. General Sherman
accomplished the march with very little
loss in % days; and Savannah fell into
his hands December 21st, 1864. The
news of its late capture was received
with great rejoicing, not only because it
showed how triumphant the campaign
in Georgia had been, but because it
opened up the seaboard of the state, and
inflicted heavy blow to the Confeder-
ate cause. General Sherman defeated
the Confederate army of North Carolina
at Bentonville, in that State, March 10Th
1865, and soon afterwards paid visit to
General Grant, to concert those measures
for the defeat of General Lee, which end
ed in the submission of that general,
and that of General j. E. Johnston, who
surrendered his army to General Sher-
man, April 26th 1866, which was one of
the closing actions of the war
General Sherman was promoted to the
rank of lieut.. general, of the army July
25th, 1866; and succeeded to General
Grant as general of the United States
Army March 4th, 1869.
General Sherman after the war, made
his home at st. Louis, Mo-, although he
lived in New York at times; never left
the chosen spot, only for a season, SO
attached to its environment he requested