The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-03-10

ter saluling him, joined General Nc
Pherson.
"For Gods sake, McPherson,' he
asked, what are all these niggers do
ing with your"
II was quite near the two speakers
and can never forget the way in which
General Mcpherson answered General
Tuttle's bewildered question, He
lifted his cavalry hat gravely from
his head, waved it majestically at the
sable swarms of negroes and bending
impressively over bis saddle-bow said;
Those negroes, Tuttle, are Gener-
al Sherman's trophies of war.
And SO they were, in one sense,
but a stranger following than that,
surely, no army has ever had before
or since.
"Of course that occasion was not
the fist time had ever seen General
Sherman. l had known him in 81.
Louis both as a banker and as the
Presi sent of the ST. Louis Rail way
/ Co. before the war. It was, however,
the first time | had met him since he
had become a General of the United
States Army. His arrival at Big
ack was fateful event for General
lTuttle. For some time there had
been serious complaints of Gen. Tut,
ties management of the Vicksburg
district as a military department.
Charges of uncalled for severity toward
the people whose country wasinvaded,
of suspicious coufscation OF property,
etc., had been made, and there were
black and ugly stnries aAoat regarding
J Tuttle's having ussd his official mill
tary position to advance his own pri
vate interests in the way of persona
, gain from the wholesale confscation:
of property. He was relieved of hi
command by Gen. Sherman during
any r 40 march tn Jackson, a
> Con. MACPHERSON succeeded him. Nc
. Ph rson was a generous and whole
sOuled soldier, and was one of the foul
Union officers of note who was like
by the Southern people. Of course
the story OF Tuttle's relief from the
command of the Vi.ksburg district il
a matter of official history, but one in
cident of it connected with Gen. Sher
man, and illustrating his characteristic
firmness and soldierly bluntness, came
under my personal observation.
''BY ORDER OF GEN. SHERMAN"
1.-The relieving of Gen. futile un.
der such charges also necessitated a
change of quartermasters of the de.
partment. The officer selected by
Gen. Sherman for that post, 1 remem-
Der, was Lieut.. Raymond, a brilliant
young fellow only about 20 years of
age. Strange to say, also, Raymond
came from near EistSt. Lonis, having
spent his boyhood On O farm belonging
to Mr.. Henry Ames of st. Louia. and
located in ST. Clair county, Ill. He
was sent for by Gen. Sherman at Big
Black, and given his instructions as
to taking charge of the quartermaster's
department. Some idea of the nature
Of The stories then afeat about futile
may be gained by the statement that
Raymond was ordered to allow no
document of any kind whatever to be
taken from the office by the quarter
master whose place he was taking.
Gen Sherman Was most emphatic in
his instructions to the lieutenant and
at the close asked:
orders, LIeuueBalH. "~1---'~~d vnnr
His impressions of Sherman and of
the sentiment of the Southern people
towards that general during his cam
paign in Mississippi, which were
highly interesting. As a sort of pre-
Jude to the story of the "March to the
Sea-" the 1868 "March to jackson"
contained many foreshadowings of the
military policy which dictated the
later campaign, and is peculiarly in
terestlng owing to that fact. Mr..
Sells own "reminiscences also gain a
certain picturesqueness from the fact
OF their being the impressions OF a
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