Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19
Action by the President.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-The president
had just finished lunch this afternoon and
was walking up stairs to his office, when a
bulletin announcing the death of General
Sherman was handed him. He was very
much moved at the intelligence, as he and
General Sherman had been near and dear
friends for many years. The president
served under General Sherman in
his famous march to the sea
The PRESIDENT sent for Gen. Grant, ACT
ing secretary OF war, and Major General
Schoield, and gave instructions for full
military honors for the dead soldier He
also prepared a message to congress and
issued an executive order announcing the
death to the country and adding: The
secretary of war will cause
the highest military honors to
| be paid the memory Of this
distinguished officer The national flag
will be foated at half-mast over all public
buildings until after The burial; and other
public business will be suspended in the
executive departments at the city of Wash
ington, and in the city where the inter
ment takes place on the day Of the funeral
and in all places where public expression
is given to sorrow during such FourS
as will enable every officer and emp!oye
to participate therein, with their fellow
citizens"
The president also sent the following
telegram of coincidence to the family:
81 loved and venerated General Sher-
man and would stand very near to the
more deeply afflicted members of his fam
lily in this hour of bereavement 1t will
be as if there were one dead in every loyal
household in the land.
Il suggest that the body be borne
| drought Washington and lie in state for
one day in the rotunda of the capitol.
PLEASE advise me of any arrangements
made.
"BENJAMIN HARRIsoN.'
|
was as follows:
The death of William T. Sherman which
took place today at his residence in the
city of New York at so p. m. is an event
that will bring sorrow to the heart of
every patriotic citizen. No living Amer
lean was so loved and venerated as he. T.
look upon him, to hear his name, was to
have one 5 love of country intensified. He
served his country not for fame, not out
of sense of professional duty, but
for love of the flag, and Of
the benefcient civil institutions
of which it was the emblem. He was
an ideal soldier and shared TO the full
est the esprit du corps of the army,
but he cherished tle civil institutions
organized under the constitution, and
was only soldier that these might
be perpetuated in undiminished useful
ness and honor. He was in nothing an
amateur. A profound student of military
science and precedent, he drew from them
principles and suggestions, and so adapt
ed them to novel conditions, that his cam
paigns will continue to be the profitable
study of the military profession through
out the world. His genial nature made
him comrade to every soldier OF the great
union army.
No presence was so welcome and lnsplr-
ing at the camp fire or commandery as his.
His career was complete; his honors were
full. He had received from the govern
ment the highest rank known to our mil
itary establishment, and from the people
unstinted gratitude and love. No word
of mine can add to his fame.