Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-15
Gan. Sherman's s Death Creates
Profound Sorrow.
President Harrison Much At
fected by the News.
Executive Orders Given as to the
Funeral Arrangements.
Congress Adjourns Out of Respect to the
Dead-Four Executive Depart
ments in Mourning.
Associated Press Dispatches.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-Ihe president
had Just finished lunch this afternoon,
and was walking upstairs to his office
when the Associated Press bulletin,
announcing the death of General Sher-
man, was handed him. The president
was very much moved at the news, as
he and General Sherman had been near
and dear friends for many years. The
president served under General Sher-
man in his famous march to the sea,
and the friendship begun at that time
was strengthened by their close associa-
tion ever since.
The president sent for General Grant,
acting secretary of war, and Major-Gen.
eral Schofeld, and gave instructions for
full military honors for the dead soldier,
and made several suggestions in regard
to the character of the general orders
announcing General Sherman's death
to the army. He also prepared
iect. and issued an executive order an
nouncing his death to the country, and
adding: 'sThe secretary of war will
cause the highest military honors to be
paid to the memory OF this distinguished
officer. The national flag will be floated
at half-mast over all public buildings
until after the burial; and public busi-
ness will be suspended in the executive
departments, at the city of Washington,
and in the city where the interment
takes place, on the day of the funeral,
and in all places where public express
sion is given to the national sorrow,
during such hours, to enable every
officer and employee OF the government
to participate therein, with their fellow
citizens"
The president also sent a telegram of
coincidence to the family, in which he
suggested that the body be brought to
Washington on the way to st. Louis,
and that it lie in state in the rotunda of
the capitol for at least one day.
THE NEWS BROKEN TO CONGRESS-.
President Harrison this afternoon
sent the following message to con-
gress The death of William Te-
cumseh Sherman, which took place
today at his residence in New York, is
an event that will bring sorrow to the
heart of every patriotic citizen. No
living American was so loved and ven-
Grated 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 sense
of provisional duty, but for love of the
flag and the beneficent civil institutions
of which it was emblematic. He was
the ideal soldier. and shared to the full
est the esprit de corps of the army, but
he cherished the civil institutions or
ganized under the constitution, and was
only soldier that these mightsbe per-
petuated in undiminished usefulness
and honor. He was in nothing an inn
itator. A profound student of mili>
tary science, he drew from it prin-
ciples and suggestions, and adopted them
to novel conditions, so that his cam
paigns will continue to be the profita-
BILE study of the military profession
throughout the world. His genial ma
ture made him liked by every soldier
in the great union army. No presence
was so welcome and inspiring at the
camp fire or commandery as his. His
career was complete; his honors full.
He received from the government the
highest rank known to our military
establishment, and from the people un-
stinted gratitude and love. No word OF
mine can add to his fame. His death
followed in startling quickness that of
the admiral OF the navy, and it is a sad
and notable incident that when the de-
partment under which he served shall
have put on the usual emblems of
mourning, four Of the eight executive
departments will be simultaneously
4 in, oil I,oe hut
today removed the Grape from it's walls"
CABINET OFFICERS INTERVIEWED.
A representative of the Associated
Press interviewed several members of
the cabinet today in regard to General
Sherman's death.
Secretary Noble said he felt great per-
sonal grief at the loss of General Sher-
man. Among the first events in Mobiles
official life in Washington was a visit
from Sherman, voluntarily, in behalf of
the eX-confederate general, Joseph E.
Johnston. He (Sherman) was as ready
to support man when friendly to the
government, as he was uncompromising
to all it's enemies.
Attorney-General Miller said: 'The
world has lost the first of it's military
men; at least, there is no one surviving
at all comparable to him, unless it be
Won Moltke. Very few men have been
so close to the hearts of the people as
General Sherman
Secretary Blaine said: "Form more than
thirty years l have known Sherman
very intimately He did not grow less
in the intimacy Of private life, and by
the fireside in his own home. He was
one OF the warmest friends to those who
possessed friendship. He was frank and
just. He spoke and wrote with a free
dom that seemed almost reckless, and
often times was misunderstood, as when
he wrote his memoirs. His death seems
premature
THE ORDER TO THE ARMY.
Acting Secretary of War Grant this
afternoon issued a general order to the
army, announcing the death. 1t in
cluded the presidents message to con-
gress and the executive order. 1t was
accompanied by another order issued
by Adjutant-General Kelton, directing
that on the day OF the funeral the
troops at every military post will
be paraded and orders read them, after
which the labors for the day will cease.
The flag will be displayed at half-mast
from the receipt of this order till the
close of the funeral. On the day of the
funeral salute o., f,seventeen guns will be
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