Arizona weekly citizen., 1891-02-28

30 minute that twenty ye - later, giving
| an order TO Gen. Mcpherson to ascend
keneSaw mountain, he said, '-dalf WY up
you will find a 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 lS46 he was first lieutenant at
Fort Mouitrie. Singularly enough, the com
pany was commanded by 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 recruiting 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 recruiting officer.
Impatient to reach the scene of active
operations, lie 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
cinnati," says Sherman, ito the superin-
tendent of the western recruiting service,
Col. Tanning an old officer with one arm,
who inquired by what authority had
come away from my post. l argued that
toOsS it for granted he wanted all the re-
cruits hc could get to forward, and did not
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 go back to Pi5tsburg."
He was soon, however, assigned to COM
pany under orders for California, and on
the 14th of July. 1916, sailed from New
York. Thus was he deprived of the expert
ence that others found SO useful when the
great war n.ade the captains and lieuten-
ants of 1913 the generals of '61-'65. While
in California Sherman heard that the Mex
ican war was over.
Tvo years later be =ezd-red from the
PacIi:: coaSs vi,i 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. IL was ''swell wed
ding" in,.ee<i-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 dicl in November, 1893, ut
the home in New York, at the age of Ga, after
a happy married life of IS years She was
buried at St. Louis.
After bridal tour to Niagara and
business trip to California and return to
Lancaster Lieut Sherman resigned his
commits: III and entered d banking firm in
San Francisco, iIc remained through six
stirring years; then came the panic of 1857;
the bank WIS closed, and in 1859 he located
in Leave swOrth, KAN, as lawyer and real
estate ut. lie found the life insupport-
ably dull. and eagerly embraced an offer
(for whi-lI lie was somewhat indebted to
Maj. ID. G. Bue!, afterward general) to take
the place of superintendent of the Louisi-
ana Military academy. But he held it
little more than a year. for the great con
fiict Wa; - hand.
OPcninG of the Civil War.
His resi.,uaJ!an was accepted on the lst |
of April. ISL. He 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