Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-02-20

so minute That twenty years later, giving
an order to Gen. Mcpherson to ascend
Kenesaw mountain, he said, "IIalf way up
YOU will find a plateau and peach orchard
Ia good place for your men to take breath
before the assault" He had visited the
orchard many times during his former
stay.
Early in 1916 he was a first lieutenant at
Fort Moutrie. Singularly enough, the com
pany was commanded by Capt Robert An
lerson, who fifteen years later was to hold
The fort while the storm of civil war was
gathering about it. Gen. Taylor was at
this time at Corpus Christi, Tex. Sherman
was ordered north on recruiting service
and assigned to duty at Pittsburg, Pa.
Here he heard of the battles of Palo Alto
and Resaca de la Palma, and chafed under
bhe quiet duties of recruiting officer.
Impatient to reach the scene of active
operations, he left his corporal in charge of
lis recruiting Office and took what men he
had gathered to Newport Barracks, oppo-
Bite Cincinnati. 81 then reported in Gin
cinnati," says Sherman, ITO the superin-
tendent of the western recruiting service,
Col Tanning an old officer with one arm,
who inquired by what authority | had
come away from my post. l argued that
cruits he could get to forward, and did not
know but he might want me to go along.
Instead of approaching my volunteer zeal
he swore at me for leaving my post and
told me to go back to Pittsburg."
He was soon, however, assigned to a com
pany under orders for California, and on
the 14th of July, 1916, sailed from New
York. Thus was he deprived of the expert
ence that others found so useful when the
great war made the captains and lieuten-
ants of 6-'4S the generals of Gigs. While
in California Sherman heard that the Mex
lean war was over.
Two years later he returned from the
Pacific coast with dispatches to the war
department, visited his mother and re
turned to Washington, where on May l,
1850, he was married to Ellen Boyle Ewing,
daughter of his foster father, then secre-
tary of the interior. 1t was a ''swell we'd
ding" indeed-the most brilliant of that
"season"-and there were present Clay,
Webster, Benton, President Taylor and all
his cabinet and many other distinguished
men.
Mrs Sherman died in November, 1888, at
the home in New York at the age of GA, after
a happy married life of 80 years. She was
buried at st. Louis.
After bridal tour to Niagara and a
business trip to California and return to
Lancaster Lieut.. Sherman resigned his
commission and entered IA banking firm in
San Francisco He remained through six
stirring years; then came the panic of 1857;
the bank was closed, and in 1859 he located
in Leavenworth, Kan, as lawyer and real
estate agent. He found the life insupport-
ably dull, and eagerly embraced an offer
(for which he was somewhat indebted to
Maj. d. G.. Buel, afterward general to take
the place of superintendent of the Louisi
ana Military academy. But he held it
little more than year, for the great con
flict was at hand.
Opening of the Civil War.
His resignation was accepted on the list
of April 1861. He had already sought the
presidency of St. Louis horse railroad
and meanwhile visited his brother, Sen
ator John Sherman, who introduced him
to the president as just from Louisiana.