Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-19
SHERMAN DEAD.
THE HERO OF The FAMOUS MARCH
TO THE SEA DRIVEN BACK TO
THE LAST TRENCH.
" Lights Out" on Earth is ReYeille
In Heaven.

W General William Tecumseh Sherma
Ol died at his home in New York City a
"a 1:50 P. NJ, Saturday, February 14tf
ell About ten days before he had, in com
20 pany with many army and naval officers
D. attended the opera at the Casino, an,
had contracted severe cold This OF
n Sunday had developed into erysipelas
attended by high fever, and the ply
u sicians considered his case hopeless from
e that time. The General, however, mad
a stubborn ht,rallying several times b,
mere force of will, and giving hopes Of
permanent recovery. During the last
). few days he lowered on the verge
of death, and bulletins were hourly is
sued to the crowds surrounding his home
and transmitted instantly to expectant
millions all over the civilized world
The end came peacefully and quietly
l while the General lay unconscious, sur
rounded by his family, all of whom were
F, present except Thomas Ewing Sherman.
The sad news was received everywhere
with expressions of sorrow. The Presi-
dent sent special message to Congress,
and in both houses tributes were paid to
the deal General. The funeral will be
held with the highest military honors
On Thursday afternoon the remains will
be escorted by the soldiery in the vicin-
ity of New York City, and by G. A. R.
Posts, and attended by delegations from
Congress, from his late home to the
railroad station. The funeral car will
be attached to a fast express and
arrives at st. Louis on Friday morning
The Ransom Post, G. A. R., will have
charge OF the funeral in st. Louis, and
the interment will be on Saturday.
The New York Mail and Egpress has
the following review of the career of the
distinguished soldier:
William Tecumseh Sherman was born
in Lancaster, o., February 8, 1920. His
ancestry is traced back to Samuel Sher-
man, of Essex, England, who came to
this country in 1854 with his brother,
the Rev. John Sherman, and his cousin,
Capt. John Sherman. Gen. Sherman
traces his ancestry to that of the Rev
John, whose family settled in Norwalk,
Conn.,, from which place some of them
| removed to Lancaster, o., in 1910.
The father of Gen. Sherman a
lawyer, and for five years before his
death in 1929 Judge of the Supreme
Court. His mother, who was married
in 1910, was Mary Hoyt. He was the
sixth child and was adopted by Thomas
Ewing, and attended school in Lancaster
till 1886, when in July of that year he
entered the Military Academy at West |
Point, graduating from that institution |
in 1910, standing sixth in a class of |
forty-two members.
He received his first commission as a |
Second Lieutenant in the Third Artillery, |
July /, 1910, and was sent with that |
command to Florida, where the emberS |
of the Indian war were still smoldering:
On November 80, 1941, he was pro-
NOTED to First Lieutenancy, and was
given the command of small detach-
ment at Picolata. In 1912 he was at
Fort Morgan, Mobile Point, Ala, and |
later at Fort Moultrie, Charleston
Harbor, where he indulged in hunting
and society, the immediate vicinity of |
the fort being a summer resort for the
people of Charleston and vicinity, In
I843, on his return from a short leave
he began the study of law, not to make
it profession, but to render himself a
more intelligent soldier.
In 1916, when the Mexican war broke
out, he was sent with troops around
Cape Horn to California, where he acted
as Adjutant- General to Gen. Stephen W.
Kearny, Col. Mason and Gen. Percifer
F. Smith. On his return in 1850 he
was married in May of that year to Miss
Ellen Boyle Ewing, at Washington, her
father, his old friend, then being Secre-
tary of the Interior.
He was appointed captain in the
Commissary Department September 2,
1850, and sent to st. Louis and New
Orleans. He had already been brevetted
a captain for service in California, dating
from May 80, 1S4S, but seeing little
prospect of promotion and small oppor-
tunity for his talents in the army in
the times of peace, he resigned his
commission September 6, 1858, the few
graduates at West Point at that time
being in demand in many walks of civil
life. He was appointed manager of the
branch bank of Lucas, Turner & Co., of
San Francisco, and when the affairs of
that establishment were closed up in
1857, he retired to st. Louis, and subse-
quently took up his residence in New
York as agent for the st. Louis firm.
During the years 1883 he practiced ,
law in Leavenworth, Kan, and the fol-
lowing year became Superintendent of
the Louisiana State Military Academy
at Alexandria, where he did excellent
work. 1t was while he was acting in
this connection that Louisiana seeded
from the Union, and, true patriot as he 6
was, he promptly resigned and returned
to st. Louis, where for short time he
served in civil position as President of ,
the Fifth Street Railroad Company.
In regard to the civil war Gen. Sher- .
man took what were then considered ex-
treme views. He looked upon President ,
Lincoln's call fos $4,000 three months
men in April, 1861, as trifling with Sc .
rious matter, declaring that the rising ,
of the secessionists was not mob to be
put down by the posse comitatus, but a
war to be fought out by armies. /
On may Is he was commissioned Colo
mel of the Thirteenth Infantry, with in
structions to report to Gen. Scott at
Washington. That officer had matured .
a plan of campaign, and was about to
put it into execution. Sherman was put
in command of a brigade in Tyler's di-
vision. His brigade comprised the Thir-
teenth, Sixty-ninth and Seventy ninth
New York and the Second Wisconsin :
regiments.
On August 3, 1861, he was made a