Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-16

mand in many walks of civil life
He was Immediately appointed man
ager of the branch bank of Lucas,
Turner & company, San Francisco,
Cal. When the affairs of that establish.
ment were wound up in 1857 he returned
to ST. Louis and lived for time in New
York as agent for the st. Louis firm. In
1859 he was counsellor at-law in Lea
| venworth, Kan, and in the next year be-
came superintendent of the State Military
| academy at Alexandria, La, where he did
good work; but when that state seeded
from the union he promptly resigned and
returned to st. Louis, where he was for a
short time president of the Fifth street
| railroad
| OF the civil war he took what were then
considered extreme views. He regarded
President Lincoln's call for $4,000 three
| months men April, 1861, as trihing with q
serious matter, declaring that the rising of
the secessionists was not mob to be put
down by the posse comitatus, but war to
| be fought out by armies. On Nav 10 he
was commissioned colonel of the Thirteenth
| infantry, with instructions to report to
General Scott at Washington. That Off
Ger had matured plan of compaign, and
was about to put it into execution
Sherman was put in command of brig
ade of Tyler's division that marched to
Bull Run. His brigade comprised the
Thirteenth, Sixty ninth and Seventy-ninth
New York and the Second Wisconsin reg
iments. The enemy's left had been fairly
turned and Sherman's brigade hotly en-
gagged, when the Confederates were rein
forced; the national troops made fatal de-
lays and struck by panic the army was
soon in full retreat Sherman's brigade
had lost Ill killed, 201 wounded and 293
missing.
On August 8, 1861, he was made a brig
adler general of volunteers to date from
May II. On August % he was sent from
the Army of the Potomac to be second in
command to General Robert Anderson in
Kentucky.
In November General U. S. Grant was
in command of the force to move on Forts
Henry and Donelson. February, 1862,
and just after the capture of these strong
holds, Sherman was assigned to the Army
of the Tennessee. In the battle of Shiloh
or Pittsburg Landing, April and Z,
Sherman's men were posted at Shiloh
church and the enemy were SO strong that
all the detachments were hotly engaged
and Sherman served as a pivot. When the
Army OF the Ohio came up during the
night Grant had already ordered Sherman
to advance, and when the combined forces
moved the enemy retreated rapidly upon
Corinth. Sherman was wounded in the
hand and highly praised by Grant in his
official report
The western armies having advanced to
the line of the Memphis and Charleston
railroad, the next step was to capture
Vicksburg and thereby open to navigation
the Mississippi river. Grant detached |
Sherman with one of his brigsdes |
back to Memphis to organize a |
sufficient force out of the new troops there |
and division at Helena to move in boats |
escorted by Admiral Porter's gun boat fleet |
to Vlcksburg to capture the place, while |
he, Grant, held Pemberton at Grenada |
The expedition failed from natural obsta-
cles.
On April 10, 1854, Sherman received in
struction from Grant to move against At
ANITA. His force consisted of the armies of
The Cumberland, the Tennessee and the
Ohio. 1t was 5000 strong with 254 guns,
while the Confederate army, under John
ston, about Al, 900 strong, soon re-
nforced up to $4,000 men, was
prepared to resist his advance,
moving from Chattanooga Sherman
anne up with him at Dalton May IA and
Johnston fell back to Resaca. Johnston
ook strong position on Kennesaw
having contracted and retired
lis TANKS to cover Marietta. Sherman
dvanced and continually gained ground
Both armies habitually fought until July
Z, when direct attack was begun on At
anita. There was a severe battle at Peach
rec Creek July co. one on the east side of
he city two days later, and on the 2Sth
ne at Ezra Church, on the opposite side
f Atlanta, in all of which the national
orces were victorious.
After taking Atlanta he began his vic
orious march from Atlanta to the Sea and
rom Savannah through the Carolinas to
-ppomattox Court House, Va, where he
oined Grant. {