The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-02-19
Death of w. r. B.erman.

Death of w. T. GERMAN,
Gen. w. T. Sherman died in New York
on the 18th after short illness of pneu-
mona.
On the Geographic announcement of
Gen. Sherman's death, the President |
sent to Congress the following touching
message:
To the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives The death of William Tecumseh
Sherman, which took place to-day at his
residence in the city of New York, at so
p. ~, is an event that will bring sorrow
to the heart of every patriotic citizen.
No living American was SO loved and
venerated as he To look upon his face,
to hear his name, was to have ones love
of country intensified. He served his
country not for fame, not out of a sense
of professional duty, but for love of the
flag and of the beneficent civil institu>
tions of which it was the emblem. He
was an ideal soldier and shared to the
fullest the esprit du corps of the army,
but he cherished the civil institutions
organized under the constitution, and
was only soldier that these might be
perpetual -! in undiminished usefulness
and honor. He was in nothing an imita-
tor. A profound student Of military
science and precedent, he drew from
them principles and suggestions, and so
adapted them to novel cen iitions that
his campaigns will continue to be the
profitable study of the military profess
sion throughout the world. His genial
n ,ture made him comrade to every sold
Ter of the great union army. No press
ence was SO welcome and inspiring at the
camp fire or commanding as his. His
career was complete, his honors were full.
He had received from the government
establishment and from the people UNI
stinted gratitude and love. No word OF
mine can add to his fame. His deathhas
followed in startling qnickness that OF
the admiral of the navy, and it is sad
and notable incident that when the de-
partment under which he served shall
put on the usual emblems of mourning,
four of the eight executive departments
will be simultaneously draped in black
and one other has but to-day removed
the Grape from its wall
[Signed,l BENZ. HARRISON,
Executive Mansion.
February IA, 1891
William Tecumseh Sherman was born
at Lancaster, Ohio, February s, 1920.
He graduated at West Point in 1910,
served in the Florida war in 1910 AZ. He
served at various military posts in the
South until 1S47. when he was assigned
to a staff position in California, where
he remained until 1850. He was on com
missary duty in st. Louis in 1S5052 and
at New Orleans until 1858, when he re-
signed. From 1853 to 1857 he was in
business in San Francisco and New York,
I'd in 1858 80 he practiced law in lleaven-
worth, Kansas. He was superintendent
of the Louisiana Military School from
1859 to 1861, when he went to st. Louis.
On May IA. 1861, he was reappoinfed IN
the army with the rank Of colonel. and
on the nth was made brigadier general
OF ne 81 VI ieeetNO
in the first battle of Bull Run. He was
at the battle of Shiloh April 9th and 18th,
where he was wounded. Was at the
J siege of Corintt. and was made major
general of volunteers May L. In 1868 he
commanded the Fifteenth army corpe,
which carried Arkansas Post by assault
January II, and was afterwards engaged
in the siege of Vicksburg. He was made
brigadier in the regular army July 18th.
He commanded @ wing of the army at
Chattanooga, November 81 25. In Feb
ruary, 1864, with 10000 men, he marched
to Meridian, Miss, and broke up the
railroads there. Having organized at
Nashville an army of 100000 men he in
vaded Georgia. engaging the confederate
forces under Gen. Joe johnson. The
battle of Jonesboro was fought August
81 In the night of September Atlanta
was evacuated by Hood, and Sherman
occupied the city till the middle of Nov
ember, when he began what was called
his march to the sea. The rest of Sher-
mans history IS familiar TO cur readers.
After the war Sherman ranked In the
regular army next to Grant, and was
made full general in 1862
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