The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-26

so minute that twenty years later, giving
an order to Gen. Mcpherson to ascend
Kenesaw mountain, he said, "Half way up
YOU will find plateau and peach orchard
"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 al
Fort Moultrie. Singularly enough, the COM
pany was commanded by Capt Robert An,
dergon, 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 recruiting service
and assigned to duty at Pltt'DurS, "a
Here he heard Of the battles OF Palo Aito
and Resaca dc la Palma, and chaleu uhuer
the Quiet duties of recruiting officer.
Impatient to reach the scene OF active
operations, no left his corporal In charge Oh
his recruiting office and took what men he
had, gathered to Newport BARRACKS, oppo-
site Cincinnati. 81 then reported IN I'm
cinnati," says Sherman, ito the superlh-
tendcnt of the western recruiting SERVICE
Col. Tanning an old officer with one arm,
who INQUIRED by what authority hau
come away from my post. argued thao l
took it for granted he wanted al inc re-
cruits he could get to forward, ana uin ho1
know but he might want me to go along
Instead OF approaching my volunteer zeal
he swore at me for leaving my post and
told me to 60 back to PittsburE'"
He was soon, however, assigned to com
pany under orders for California, and on
the 18th of July, 1916, sailed from New
York. Thus was he deprived Of the expert
ence that others found so useful when tho
great war made the captains and heuten-
ants of '4G-4S the generals of '6l-'6j. 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.
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the homein New York, ut the age Of Ut, after
a happy married life of IS years. She was
buried at st. Louis.
After n bridal tour to Niagara and
business trip to California and return to
Lancaster Lieut.. Sherman resigned his
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 I4eavenworth, 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
Mai d. G. Buel, afterward genera) to take
the place of superintendent of the Louisi-
ana Military academy. But he held it
little more than year, for the great con-
fict was ut hand.
Opening of the Civil War.
His resignation was accepted on the LIST
of April, 1861 lie had already sought the
presidency of St. Louis horse railroad,
and meanwhile visited his brother, Sen
ator john Sherman, who introduced him
to the president as Just from Louisiana.