Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-02-21
GENERAL SHERMAN.

clans knew that the end was approach
Ing slowly but surely The swelling of
the face and neck had disappeared, but
with the subsldence of the symptoms OF
erysipelas came the development OF
lung trouble, complicated with a return
of the long standing asthma Mucous
began once more to accumulate in the
lungs and the first signs of passive
pneumonia became apparent.
AT O'Clock DR.. Alexander noticed
change for the worse. 1t was slight, to
be sure, but the trained eye of the
friend and physician saw an omnous
significance in it. BY $50 o'clock the
change had become so marked that DR..
| Alexander sent a messenger to summon
DR.. Green, Shortly afterward other
messengers were sem to sum
mon Lieutcnants Thacllera and
Fitch. When they had come, still an
other messenger went to summon DR..
Janeway. All this time General Sher-
man was constantly growing weaker.
The will power which had kept him
bit of strength did he have left with
which to fight off his last and mighticst
foe. He made the last rally of his life
Friday.
All the family were about the Gcner-
al when DR., Janeway arrived at :
o'clock. Another consultation was held.
DR.. JaNeway left at $50. A glance at
his features told the story.
"All hope Is gone" he said "Thc
General may live a few hours longer.
lie certainly can not last throughout
the day" Then this bulletin came from
the Gen rails house:
'The physicians, after consultation declare
that the Generals condition is now hopeless.
He is dying and the end is near"
There was no mistake about it this
time as before. The erysipelas
had again set in and bronchitis
had also attacked the sick man.
At $3.50 another report came from
the house through friend of
the General. He said that the dying
man was in no physical pain. 1t was
somewhat difficult for him to breathe,
but otherwise he was not suffering
From 10 o'clock on General Sherman
continued to fail. At ll;20 it was stated
that his death was but a question of
minutes.
A son of General Sherman called on
Times reporter at the newspaper
headquarters near the sherman resi-
dcnce and severely arraigned him for
printing a statement concerning the
administration of extreme JUNCTION to
General Sherman by Roman Catholic
priest. Mr.. Sherman's vehement
objection was to what he con-
strued to be statement in the article
that Rev. Father Matthew a. Tay-
lor was admitted quietly into the
house and that there had been great |
secrecy about it. He admitted extreme
unction was administered to the Gep-
eral at the request of the family. IL
was true that General Sherman was
gasping for breath at the time, and |
might not have been conscious OF what
was going on about him. Mr. Sher-
man declared positively. that his
father was not Roman Catholic, and
had neither asked for nor consented to
receive extreme JUNCTION. General
Sherman's children had asked the priest
TO administer the last rites OF the
Roman Catholic church to their father
and II had been done. There had been
no secrecy about it whatever, senator
John Sherman has sent to the llmes
this letter:
GENTLEMEN; A paragraph In your paper
this morning gives nh erroneous view o' an 'u
cidcnt In General Sherman's sick chaihoer
which wounds the sensitive feelings OF ms emu
dren, now in deep distress, which, uh"er 'ne
circumstances, / deem II proper 10 oo''...
Your reporter intimatcs that advantage was
takon OF my temporary absence 10 lht'o,
duce Catholic priest into ue"c,a'
Shermans chamber to administer 'no
rite OF extreme unction TO the SICK ma"
In the nature Of q claim that nc "as
Catholic. II is well known that MS la,nns
have been reared by their mother, u auo'Y.I
Catholic, In her faith and now cling W
equally well known that General She'il"n ',, NV
myself as well as all my mothers u"l.;o.T ",,S
are BY inheritance, education and connee.lon,
.,,, |
openly avowed on all proper occasions ps
Genera, Sherman; but he Is too good osr,s,
tian and TO humane man " ''",
10 his children the consolation 0
their religion, He was insonsible w 'ne .is ny
and apparently at the verge Of DEATH ou' :, nj. W
had been we'll and in the full exercise VI n
faculties he would not have denied 10 'ne,a e,rv.
consolation Of the prayers and religious ,,,r,. os
snces for their father Of any class or o't".
ton Of Christian priests or preachers, os.,a'|
ly II had been present would at tho rSantSs rin,sr
Of the family have assonted 10 anu ~, ,on ,hc
shared In an appeal to the Aimish'y ",sor ,oy snr
life here and hereafter OF my brother wnc,mer ner
ia prayer or ealreme uac,ion, nno w"u,"e ,,'er
uttered by priest or preacher OF "i,s , "," hai
good man who believed what he spoke uno nar
an honest faith in his creed hear ,nas ,"n sVw
reporter uttered threat TO obtain ,hlornn"t
which can not believe you would for a mo,avn'
tolerate. We oil need charity Tor ou, n'',.' 's,IS
but can feel none ior any one wio wo",s ,s
wound those already in distress Very truly
,oura 's '' yonE snEnMAM |