The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1891-02-16
SHERMAN ISDEAD
The Leader OF the Fa-
nous March to
the Sea.
He Crossed to the Un-
known Shore This
Afternoon.
Was Gradually But Surely
Sinking All Last Night
and To-Day.
The Public Had Not Been In
formed of His Real
Condition.
One of the Last of Americas Great
Wartime Commanders Gone
10 His Reward.
He Will Live in the Hearts of the
People as Long as Mar
tial Music.
Gen. sherman + dead
One Of the Last Of Americas Great
Wartime Commanders Gone
10 His Reward
He Will Live in the Hearts of the
People as Long as Mar
tial Music.
THE MORNING BULLETINS.

Gen. sherman + dead.
THE MOKNING BULLETINS.
The General. Condition Considered Hope
less from AN Early Hour To-Day.
New YORK, Feb. l5.-Senator sher-
man, at $40 this morning, sent the fol-
lowing message to his family In Wash
ington:
General Sherman lives: the family Is with
hirn. He Is conscious and without pain.
His asthm attic breathing Is shorter and his
strength is weaker.
The physicians, after consultation this
morning, declare the generals condition
10 be hopeless, that he Is dying. and that
the end IL near
Nearing the End.
Al $50 this morning no hope was On
tertained for the recovery of Gen. Sher-
man. DIR. Janeway, consulting physl-
clan, left the house at that hour. He
said:
There Is a decided change for the worse.
He will not live through the day aud he Is
at present very low. He mag die at any
moment His strength II falling.
Loaing Ground Rapidly.
that Gen. Sherman il sinking rapidly.
The end Is expected soon.
A Question os Minutes Only.
At 1875 IL was announced that the
death OF Gen. Sherman was only ques-
ton OF a few minutes.
William Tecumsah sherman was born at
Lancaster, o.. Feb. .. ls20. His branch OF
-. g. "a -
Essex. England who came 10 this country
in 1884, with his brother and the Rev. John
sherman. aud his cousin capt. John rhrr-
man. X pger Sh rman, stgner of the dec IA :
rat n of indepen Ience. trace, his llnea ge
10 the captain, aud Gen. sherman to that OF
the Rev John. whose family settled In
Woodbury. and Norwalk, conn.,, whence
some of them removed To Lancaster, Fair
Aeld county. Ohio. In 1910. The father Of
Gen. sherman was "A lawyer and for five
years before his death, In 1899, was Judge OF
the supreme court. His mother, who was
married In 1910, was May Hoyt. They had
eleven children, of whom William was the
sixth. aud John'the eighth. William was
adopted by Thomas Ewing, and attended
school In Lancaster until 1888. In July OF
thai year he was sent as "A cadet TO West
Point, where he graduated In 1870,
sixth In class OF forty-two members.
A mong his classmates was Geo IL Thomas.
As a cadet he Is remembered earnest,
high-spirited, honorable aud outspoken
youth, deeply Impressed according - one
OF his early letters, vita the grave respons-
Ibiity properly attaching Ia serving the
country" lie also at that time EXPRESSED
wish 10 go to the far west. out of clyiliza-
tiou. He was commits stoned a second
lieutenant In the Taird artillery. July 1.
Is4o. and sent TO Florida, where the embers
OF the Ind ian war were still sniouldering.
On Nov. 80, IssI, he was made a hrst lieu
nd fgd data arh
ment at Picoiato. In ls42 he was sent %
Fort Morgan, Mobile Point, Ala, and later
10 Fort Moultire. Charleston Harbor, where
he ind ,lged in hunting aud soc city. the Inn
mediate vicinity OF the fort being summer
resort for the people OF Charleston Ia 1913
ON his return from short leave be
began the study of law. not 10 make
IL a profe ssion but 10 render himself a mort
Intelligent soldier. When the Mexican wal
began In ls16, he was sent with troop
around Cape Horn to California, where h'
acted IA nd general to Gen. stephen
W. kearny. Col. Mason, and Gen. Persife
r. Smith. Returning in 1880, on May l. h'
married Miss Ellen Boyle Ewing. at Wash
Ing. her father his old friend. being ther
secretary of the interior. He was appointes
a captain In the commissary department
Dec. 2, 1850, and sent To 80. Louis and New
Orleans. Tie had already received bIeve
of captain for service In California. to dat
from May 80. ls4s. Seeing little prospect o
promotion. and small opportunity 70
his talent in the army II
time OF peace he resigned his commission
Sept. 9, is53. the few graduates of Wes
Point being at that time Ia great mani
In many walks OF life. lie was immediatel
appointed manager OF the branch bank q
Lucas. Turner Co, San Francisco Whe
the affairs OF that establishment wer
wound up in 1887. he Returned to ST. Louis. an
lived for time IN New York agent "a
the St Louis hrm. In 1852 ho was
counselor -at-law In Leayenworth. Kas
and In the next year became superintend
ent OF OF the state military academy a
Alexandria, La, where he did good work
but when that state seeded from the unio
he promptly resigned and returned to n
Louis. where he was, for short time pres
dent OF the Fifth street railroad
or tho civil war he took what were the
considered extreme views. lie n
garded President Lineo.n's call q
as 600 three months men. In April SO
as trihing with serious matter. declarir
that the rising of the cecessioni ia was not
mob, 10 be Pot down by the posse comii0tt
but a war a. be fought out by armies.
May I3, ho was commissioned colonel OF Il
Thirtesnth infantry. with instructions
report 20 Gen. Scott at Wash ington. tn
oficer had matured plan Of campaign, al
was about 10 put n into execution. She
man Was putin command OF brigade
TyIer's division OF the army that mach
60 Bull Run, His brigade comprised I
Thirteesitb, slxty-ninth, and seyent