The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-02-21

: mas not been found and the lady in oues-
, ton Is now in seclusion awaiting the ar
rival OF remittance that will make DOS
slble the return trip to New York.
General sherman Dead
General Sherman died at his home in
) New York City on the l4th inst.
William Tecumseh Sherman is ma
tive OF the state of Ohio and was born
at Lancaster ont he Sth day of February
1920. He graduated at West Point in his
twenty-trst year, and saw military ser
vice in Florida, and the war with Mexico
and elsewhere, before resigning his COM
mission in the year 1853. Upon his re-
tlrement from the army he began bust
ness in San Francisco, as banker. and
continued this vocation four years, in
Guiding residence in New York CITY.
From 1857 to 1859 he practiced law in
Leavenworth, Kansas. During the sue
ceedlng time up to the secession of the
state from the union, he acted as super
lntendent of the Louisiana military aca-
denny. His resignation took place in
January, 1861, and was almost immedi-
ately followed by his return to the ar
my.
The civil war gave Sherman the oppor-
tunity of distinguished service, and plac-
ed him in the first rank of living gen
Hic !,
colonel OF regiment of infantry. At
the battle of Bull Run he commanded a
brigade of volunteers, and was made
brlgadier- general Of volunteers. After
serving short time in the camp of in
struction at st. Louis, he took part in
the campaign conducted in the state of
Tennessee and Mississippi during which
he was promoted to the rank of briga-
dier-general of the regular army. In
October, 1868, he succeeded General
Grant as commander of the army de-
partment of the Tennessee When, in
March, 1864, General Grant was made
lieutenant-general and commander of
all the union forces, Sherman succeeded
him as commander of the military dlvis-
ion of the Mississippi. This included
the entire southwest, and his appoint
ment gave him command of more than
a hundred thousand effective troops
with whom to operate against General
j. r. johnson. He began the invasion
of Georgia on the 2nd of May, 1865,
making his advance movement at the
same time with that of General Grant
in the east. His forces were superior in
numbers to those of the confederate
general, who, however, stubbornly con-
tested the advance at every possible
point. There was much hard fighting
between the two armies, and 1t was not
until September End that Atlanta was
captured by Major-General Sherman,
but then newly promoted to this rank.
He occupied the city with his army for
ten weeks, when he commenced his
march to the sea, having previously dis
patched some 10000 men under General
Thomas to repel General Hoods advance
into Tennessee. His remaining forces
consisted of 10000 men, more or less.
In less than month they had marched
three hundred miles without resistance.
His first fight was at Fort McAlllster,
below Savannah, the surrender of which
stronghold preceded that of Savannah
by eight days. In the middle of Jan
uary, 1865, General Sherman began his
INVASION of the Carolinas His march
through South Carolina lasted six weeks
In North Carolina he encountered CON
siderable opposition and fought two
pitched battles. Goldsboro' was occu-
pied on the twenty second of March,
1865; Raleigh on April 13. On the 25th
# April, Gen. johnson surrendered his
Irmy to Sherman on the same terms as
lad been granted to Gen. Lee by Gen.
1rant. This surrender virtually closed
he war.
General Sherman continued in COM
nand of the military division of the
year after the end of the
lostilities, with the rank of major-gen-
raj in the regular army. He was pro-
noted to lieutenant general when in
uly, 1866, Grant had been made general
t the army. His command continued
9 before. Sherman succeeded Grant as
eneral of the army in March, 1869, after
be election of the first named to the
residency. He spent part of 1871 and
872 abroad, in Europe and the east.
]pon his return he made his head
uarters at Washington; but removed to
It. Louis in 1874. General Sherman
ontributed to the historical literature
the United States by the publication
his memoirs, in 1875.