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Professor MacAlister. with his salary
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ia the United Stataa
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He pastes the ball with fury,
Determined TO do his worst,
And the umpire gently murmurs,
"Out
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The lover who proposes marriage to
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| in his memoirs:
"'Ah,' said Mr.. Lincoln, how are they
getting along down theres' said, They
are getting along swimmingly-they are
. preparing for war; oh. well,' said he, 4
guess Well manage to keep house. I was
silenced, said no more to him and soon
left. l was sadly disappointed, and remem-
ber that broke out on John, damning the
politicians generally, and saying: You've
got things ill Il h of a fix, and you may
get them out as best you can,' adding that
the country was sleeping on a volcano
that might burst forth at any minute, but
that was going to St. Louis to take care
of my family and would have nothing to
do with it..
The apparent cheerfulness and hopeful
ness of the president was doubtless dis
couraging then to many others, who did
not know of the load behind it. OF all the
eyes that looked into the future none saw
farther than Mr.. Lincoln's.
Sherman was elected president of the
horse railroad, and entered upon his duties
April /, 1851. Twelve days after came the
firing on Sumter. Sherman was offered
the chief clerkship in the war department
through Montgomery Blair, with pros
pect OF being assistant secretary of war,
, but declined. He says Frank Blair init
pontment rs brgadier general and to the
position Lyon afterward held, but that he
declined this office. For the work to be
done in the field Lyon was perhaps a bet
ter man than Sherman. Lyon was ready
to act in those ferncnting times when
there WIS lNtle or nothing to work with,
while SherGan's strength was only devel-
oped when the means were at hand and
the machinery in EHe working order.
Sherman formally Offered his services by
letter to the secretary OF war on May S,
1861. Six days later he was appointed
colonel OF one Of tie new regular regi-
ments, the Thirteenth infantry.
Delays and Disasters of '61.
In June, 1861, he was assigned to the
command 0f !, brigade in the Army of the
Potomac, and Bull Ran was the first mill
tary contest Of any kind that he saw or
took part in-''whcn," he says, 'fOr the
first time in ny life | saw cannon balls
strike zen and crash through the trees
and sap!in.;s above and around us, and re-
allied the always sickcning confusion as
one approaches Il fight from the rear; then
the night marc.l from CeEtreville, on the
Warrento:l r: Il. standing for hours Won
dering what WIS meant; the GeploymeHt
along the edge OF the field that slopes down
to Bull Rum, and waiting for Hunters ap-
proach OF the other side from the direc-
ton of Sudiey Springs, away off to the
right; the terrible scare of a poor negro,
who was caught between our lines; the
crossing OF Bah Eun' and the fear lest we
should he Gred on by our own men; the
killing Of l.:-s;t. Cot. Elaggerty. which oc-
CURED in Il IN sight, and the first scenes
of u field strewed with dead men and
horses Thus does Gen. Sherman graph
ically picture his entrance to his first battle.
Then followed the period of reorganiza-
ton Mcclellan was soon in command OF
all the armies of the United States. Sher-
man was made brigadier general, and on
the oath of August was ordered, with his
former classmate, George H. Thomas, to
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"a good place for your men to take breath
before the assault" He had visited the
orchard many times during his former
stay.
Early in 1916 he was first lieutenant at
Fort Moultrie Singularl yenough, the COM
pany was com mmanded bS Capt. Robert An
derson, who fifteen years later was to hold
the fort while the storm of civil war was
gathering about it. Gen. Taylor was at
this time at Corpus Christi. Tex Sherman
was ordered north on r..IuIulng service
and assigned to duty at Pittsburg, Pa.
Here he heard of the battles of Palo Alto
and Resaca de la Palma, and chafed under
the quiet duties of a recruiting officer.
Impatient to reach the scene of active
operations, he left his corporal in charge OF
his recruiting Office and took what men he
had gathered to Newport Barracks, oppo-
site Cincinnati. Il then reported in Gin
clnnatl,' says Sherman, Ito the superin-
tendent of the western recruiting service,
Col. Tanning, an old officer with one arm,
who inquired by what authority l had
come away from my post. argued that
took it for granted he wanted all the re-
cruits he conld get to forward, and did not
know but Re might want me to go along.
Instead of tHprcciating my volunteer zeal
he swore at me for leaving my post and
told me to SO back to Pittsburg"
He was soon, however, ass. .ucd to Il COM
pany under orders for California, and On
the 18th of July, 1876, sailed from New
York. Thus was he deprived of the expert
ence that others found SO useful when the
great war made the captains and lieuten-
ants of '46-'4S the generals of 'G1-65. While
in California Sherman heard that the Mex
lean war was over.
Two years later he returned from the
Pacific coast with dispatches to the war
department., visited his mother and re-
turned to Washington, where on May l,
1850. he was married to Ellen Boyle Ewing,
daughter of his foster father, then secre-
tary of the interior. 1t was ''swell we'd
ding" indeed-the most brilliant of that
"season"-and there were present Clay,
Webster, Benton, President Taylor and all
his cabinet and many other distinguished
men.
Mrs. Sherman died in November, 1888, at
the home in Ne" York, at the age of G4, after
a happy married life of 80 years. She was
buried at St. Louis.
After bridal tour to Niagara and a
business trip to California and return to
Lancaster Lieut.. Sherman resigned his
commission and entered banking firm in
San Francisco. He remained through six
stirring years; then came the panic of 1857;
the bank was closed, and in 1859 he located
in Leavenworth, Kan, as lawyer and real
estate agent. He found the life insupport-
ably dull, and eagerly embraced an offer
(for which he was somewhat indebted to
Maj. D. c. Buel, afterward generaD to take
the place of superintendent of the Louisi-
ana Military academy. But he held it
little more than year, for the great con-
flict was at hand.
Opening of the Civil War.
His resignation was accepted on the 1st
of April, 1861. He had already sought the
presidency of 4 ST. Louis horse railroad,
and meanwhile visited his brother, Sen
ator John Sherman, who introduced him
to the president as just from louisiana
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mand of the division OF the Mississippi
embracing the departments of the Ohio,
Cumberland, Tennessee and Arkansas. The
army of the Ohio was under Schofield, that
of the Cum berland under Thomas and
that of the Tennessee under Mcpherson.
On the 10th of April, 1864, the total force
of these three armies was 352, COO men-on
paper. Those present for duty were $780,,
600. Out of this force Sherman prepared
100000 men for active operations, leaving
$4,000 to guard the immense territory the
lines of communication, railroads, bridges,
depots, etc, behind him. .D:, force of en-
gines and cars required to carry food for
his army he estimated at 100 locomotives
and 900 cars.
There were but GO locomotives and 600
cars at hand. Sherman instructed his mas
ter of transportation to hold all rolling
stock arriving from Louisville at Nash
vile. In this way he accumulated suffi-
cient cars and eng ines to transport food to
his armies.
Gen. Joseph Z. Johnston was in his front
with an army of 1900 men. Johnston
was afterward joined by an additional
force of 2,000 men. Thus the armies stood
at 100000 to 64,000. By the 1st of June
Sherman had lost 10000 men, and John
ston 1900. The force then stood, Sher-
man 10000, Johnston 81 600, showing sur
plus of Sc, GOO for Sherman
In a limited space it is impossible to give
an account of the different battles fought
in this campaign. 1t will be more inter
esting to note the features of the struggle,
the objects to be gained and the advantages
and disadvantages on either side. Sherman
having a superior force, and being each day
drawn farther from his base, was anxious
to bring on battle. Johnston must either
fight force exceeding his own by nearly
10000 men, or at last demoralize his army
by prolonged retreat. The two armies
would come together; each would throw
up breastworks; the country being noun
famous, usually protected Johnston's
right; Sherman would throw his surplus to
his own right, on the outer extremity of
which was his cavalry, and when about to
get in Johnston's rear Johnston would re-
treat.
Sherman, grown impatient, decided to
attack at kenesaw. The armies of the
Cumberland and the Tennessee marched
forward to the assault. The result was a
failure scarcely less bloody than Fredericks-
burg. Then Sherman once more threw
out his flanking column and Kenesaw fell.
Union pickets took possession one morn
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SHERMAN'S ARMY ENTERING SAVANNAH
surrender them, but he thought Sherman
ought to give him some guarantee for the
men and officers of their political rights
Other prominent Confederate officers were
called in, and Sherman wrote terms for
surrender to submit to the new president,
Andrew Johnston. The papers were signed
and forwarded.
The taking up of civil matters in this
cartel, proposing the guarantee to the "peo-
pie of all the states their political rights
and franchises" at once insured its disap-
proval at Washington. Grant Joined Sher-
man at Raleigh, by direction of the presi
dent, for the purpose of assuming COM
mand. New terms We're drawn up between
Johnston and Sherman for the surrender
of Johnstons army alone and approved by
Gen. Grant.
Then came the grand review in Wash
ington, the flags, the decorations, the eD-
thusiastic multitudes, while hundreds of
thousands of veterans marched through
the streets past the reviewing stand But
one shadow rested upon the throng and
the armies-the memory of those who had
fallen, and that he whose patience, whose
wisdom, whose kindly disposition had
guided the nation, harmonizing the dis
cordant elements, pushing always forward
with sublime faith through four years of q
dlsheartening struggle, was not permitted
to review the victorious armies. Abraham
Lincoln slept with those whom he had
sent into battle.
Gen. Sherman succeeded Grant in the
command of the armies of the United
States when Grant was made president.
At the age of Ga he was retired, and cventu-
ally took up his residence in New York,
and each year has added to the popular
e., IL i
ures of his character have lately become
historical.
The actual ability of any eminent man
cannot be weighed dispassionately in his
own time. Sherman failed signally in the
early part of the war, but was eminently
successful in the latter part. He was al
ways true to his convictions, and to the
sight with which he saw the problems be
fore him. He never did much with little,
but he did great deal when amply sup
piled with means. When Grant left him
in command in the west he was free to
prosecute any campaign in his own way.
That he prosecuted the campaign he saw
before him in a mastery way Except his
blunder at Kenesaw), and handled his men
and kept open his communications with
great skill, no one can doubt, but it will
remain for the dispassonate military stu
dent to determine whether or not his plan
was at fault.
When he started for Atlanta his whole
army amounted to nearly 2G0, coo electives.
The combined Confederate forces that
could have opposed any move he chose to
make in the west were not more than so
per cent. of the number of his own. His
plan of following Johnston involved the
Strlnging out Of his army from Louisville
to Atlanta The situation was cumber-
Or N md npt TO ht- ii
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1t is Interesting to note the stock from
which heroes snr;ng. The Sherman family
came from Sussex, EnGiInd One branch
produced Roger Sherman. William NJ.
Evarts and George L. ii0ar Another gave
IFS the two others, Senator John and Gen.
William Tccumseh Sherman. The father
of these two distinguished men, Charles Il.
Sherman, WIS Il judge of the Ohio supreme
court, and during the war of 1872 had acted
rs commissary OF subsistence. Being
g'eat admirer of the Shawnee chief Te-
cumseh, when the child destined to become
one of the great chieftans of the civil war
was born Judge Sherman gave him for
second name "Tecumseh."
William TeCumsch Sherman was born at
Lancaster, O., on the Sth of February, 1890.
His father died when he was years old,
and the boy was taken into the family of
Hon. Thomas Ewing, who always treated
him as Il son. At the Lancaster academy
he studied the ordinary branches, besides
Latin, Greek and French. Mr.. Ewing be-
ing a United States senator, and having n
cadets appointment at his disposal, noti-
fled the yOungster to prepare for West
Point. In 1884, however, Sherman was
employed as rod man with the eng ginccrs
locating the Hooking Valley canal. receiv
ing u silver half dollar a day for his work
Leaving Lancaster in the latter part of
May, 1886, he went to Washington to re-
port to Senator Ewing, travelling over the
great National road to Frederick. Md.
There he was told that he could t;.ke cars
to Washington, but mot having faith in
the novel and dangerous railroad, he says
in his memoirs, he stuck to the coach. From
Washington he went to Baltimore by rail,
thence by boat to Havre de Grace, thence by
rail fn i1yni sal nd fhnnpn
the Delaware by boat to Philadelphia.
After a few days of delightful sightseeing
nc took boat to Bordentown, rail to Am
boy, and boat to New York. There he met
William Scott, the husband of one Of his
cousins, "a neatly dressed young fellow"
he says, "who looked on me as an untamed
animal just caught in the far west, fit for
gunpowdcr and nothing else" The steam
er Cornelius Vanderbilt took him to West
Point, where he arrived on June 12.
Sherman WIS good scholar He stood
sixth in class of forty-three, and but for
the demerits for his inattention to rules
and regulations would have stood even
higher. Upon graduation he was commits
stoned Il second lieutenant in the Third
United States artillery. to report at Cover
nor's Island, New York, where he was as
signed to the command of company OF
recruits pre- .JarlnG for service IN Florida
In Florida. South Carolina and California.
Gen. Zachary Taylor was then in chief
command in Florida, and Col, afterward
Maj. Gen, Worth commanded the Eighth
infantry at St. Augustine. Sherman went
with his company to St. Augustine, and
seems to have learned more there about
spearine fish than shedding blood. The
Seminole war was over, the Indians were
scattered and the duties of the soldiers
were principally hunting up the fragments
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Via. Keysville. Oxford and Durham.
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turning leave Atlanta 10 10 a IN. Charlotte
7 7O3 p m, Salisbury $40 p m, Greensboro
45 p M; arrives Danville II 05 p m,
Lynehhurg 30 a III, Washington Is IS m.
Additional train leaves Oxford daily ex-
sept Sunday IL 05 M, arrive Henderson
II O5 p M. returning leave Henderson = Is
M, daily except Sunday, arrive Oxford
515pm.
No. 9, leaving GoldsbOro II Is p N and
Raleigh 4 Is m daily, makes connection
at Durham with No 40, leaving at 30 p III
daily, except Sunday for Oxford, Hender-
son and all points on o. & H., o. & e. and
4. & NJ roads.
Passenger coaches run through between
West Point and Raleigh, via keysville, on
Nos. Is and IA, and l6 and 13
Nos. and 10 connect at Richmond from
and to West Point and Baltimore daily ex-
>sept Sunday.
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by this time the Confederacy was ia u.

by this time the Confederacy was ia as
death throes.
Having arrived at Goldsboro Sherman
went to Fortress Monroe for an interview
with Gen. Grant and Mr.. Lincoln. He
has given the testimony of Admiral Por-
ter. vino was present at the meeting, to
show that Mr.. Lincoln was ready to have
almost any terms accepted from Cen.
Johnston rather than have him Join Lee
and render the fighting OF another battle
necessary. Sherman weCt !slck to Colds
bai-n and announced his pians 10 his gen
erals, but all was rendered unnecessary by
the fall cf Richmond and Petersburg.
Then 1t WAS again fared Lee would at
tempt to JOIN JoIns5on, and Grant di-
rected Sherman to push ON, and, III 70
operation with himself, try, rs Grant cx-
plcssed it, to finish the job" On April
l. Sherman received the news of Lees sur
render
On the morning Of the lith of April he
received by flag OF truce n letter from Gen
Johnston proposing to surrender Sher-
man replied that he would make tho terms
Of AppCmattox basis. \ meeting was ar
ranged between the two generals, and on
the lsth, as Sherman was about de
parting to keep his engagement, he re
ceiyed the news of the assassination of
President Lincoln. Sherman met John
SION, who declared he had authority over
all Confederate armies, and that he would
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the department Of the Cumberland to re-
port to Gen. Robert Anderson, once cap
tain Of the battery in which Sherman
served at Fort Moultrie, S. C..
Buckner was at the time supposed to be
marching on Louisville; the state of Ken
tucky was endeavoring to preserve her
neutrality, and there was a very small
Union force at hand with which to make
a defense. Sherman advanced to Null
draugh's Hill with such volunteers and
home guards as could be collected. Gen.
Anderson's health was not equal to the
command of SO many conflicting elements,
and on the 8th II October, 1861, he pub
lished an order relinquishing Lis com
mand, which fell on Sherman as next in
rank in that department..
1t is impossible for the student of war
history to peruse the record of Sherman s
administration in Kentucky and his subse-
quent advance to Atlanta without wonder
ing that the same Sherman acted in both
fields. Sherman in Kentucky found him
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sHERMAE'S NEW YORK RESIDENCE. - WEST
SEVENTY-FIEST STREET
to send west He said then that he policy
was the worst possible. Florida. almost
surroun.e,i by water. was the best place
on the continent to control and civillze
Indians, and was intrinsically worth much
less to the whites than the Indian terri
tory.
After three years in Florida and visit
home he was detailed to assist Col.
Churchill, inspector general of the army,
in taking dispositions in upper Georgia and
Alabama concerning losses by volunteers
in Florida by reason of the failure of the
United States to provide sufficient foraS>."
This duty took him to Marietta, Ga, where
he became familiar with the ground over
ehlch twenty years afterwartl IL was to
lead q =; X. His peregri- = ex-
tended i...t .>ellefonte, Ala, II y tsnta,
Ga. ar knowledge of th" 80 vas
so minute that twenty years later, giving
an order to Gen. Mcpherson to ascend
keuesaw mountain, he sand, Half way up
you Will find a plateau and peach orchard
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