The record-union., 1891-02-15
SHERMAN Is DEAD.
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THE NEWS IN WARRINGTON.
President Harrison Deeply Affected a
General Shernan,s Death

President Harrison Deeply Affected at
General Sherman's Death.
WAsHINToN, Feb. 14-rhe President
had just finished lunch this afternoon,
and was walking up stai1 IS to his office,
when the Associated Press bulletin an
nouncing the death of Ge neral Sherman
was handed to him. The President was
very much moved at the Intelligence. as
he and General Sherman had been near
and dear friends for marty years. The
President served under Ge neral Sherman
in his famous march to tire sea, and the
friendship begun at that time has been
strengthened by their close association
ever since.
The President sent for General Grant.
Acting Secretary of War, and Major
General Schofield, and gave instructions
for full military honorS for the dead
soldier, and made several suggestions in
regard to the character of the general
orders announcing General Sherman's
death to the army. He stiso prepared q
message to Congress on the same subject,
and issued an Executive order announc-
ing the death to the country, and adding:
1.-The Secretary of War will cause the
highest military honors 10 be paid to the
memory of this distinguis he'd officer. The
national flag will be fioatpd at half-mast
over all public buildings until after the
burial, and public business will be sus-
pended in the executive departments at
the city Washington, and in the city
where the interment tal3es place on the
day of the funeral, and in all places where
public expression is given to the national
sorrow, during such hours as will enable
every officer and employee to participate
therein with their fellow -citizens.''
The President also sert telegram of
coincidence to the family, in which he
suggested that the bod y be brought to
Washington on the way 40 ST. Louis, and
that it lie in state in the rotunda Of the
Capitol for at least one day.
Acting Secretary of War Grant this
afternoon issued q general order to the
army announcing the death. 1t included
the Presidents message to Congress and
the Executive order. 1t was accompa-
MED by another order ISSUED by Adiu-
tant-General Kelton, directing that on
the day of the funeral the troops at every
military post will be paraded and orders
read to them, after which the labors for
the day will cease. The flag will be dis
played at half-mast from the receipt of
this order till the close of the funeral
On the day of the funeral salute of sew
enteen guns will be fired at half-hour in
tervals, commencing at a. NJ.
The officers of the army will wear the
usual badges Of mourning, and the colors
of the several regiments and battalions
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of six months.
The House Committee on Military Af-
fairs will report appropriate resolutions
OF respect, and recommend that the
House take part in the funeral service
General Cutcheon, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Military Affairs, referred feel
ingly to the fact that death has removed
the last of three great Union Generals.
This passage from Sherman s memoirs,'
said he, lis the key to the character of
the whole man. 1t was at the outbreak
of the war, when Sherman was in Louis
lana: 'On no earthly account will / do
any act, or think any thought, hostile to
or in defiance of the old Government of
the United States.'"
The following is the Presidents mes
sage to the family of General Sherman:
q loved and venerated General Sher-
man, and would stand very near to the
more deeply afflicted members of his
family in this hour of bereavement. 1t
will be as if there were one dead in every
loyal household in the land. l suggest
that the body be borne through Washing
ton and lie in state for one day in the ro-
tunda of the Capitol. Please advise me
of any arrangements made.
BENJAMIN HARRISON"
Representatives of the Associated Press
interviewed several members of the Cab
met to-day. Secretary Noble said he felt
great personal grief at the loss of General
Sherman. Among the first events in
Mobiles official life in Washington was
visit from Sherman. voluntarily made in
behalf of the ex-Confederate, General
Joseph E. Johnston. He (Sherman) was
as ready to support man when friendly
to the Government as he was uncompro-
missing to all its enemies.
Postmaster General Wanamaker said:
He was made of pure gold. No man
that ever knew combined in such de-
gree the courage of a lion, the gentleness
of woman, and the simplicity of
child"
Attorney General Miller said: 'The
world has lost the first of it's military
men. AT least, there is no one surviving
at all comparable to him, unless it be
Won Moltke. Very few men have been
so close to the hearts of the people as
General Sherman. One thing struck me
in the great Centennial review in New
York. There the General stood by the
side of the President. No matter what
else might be claiming his attention, he
did not fail to take off his hat and salute
the flag. He might let the men pass
without recognition, but never the flag"
Secretary Blaine said: "For more than
man very Intimately. OF his many and
great qualities on the public side, it is not
| necessary to speak. He did not grow less
| in the intimacy of private life and by the
hreSide of his own home. lie was one of
the warmest friends to those who pro-
fessed friendship. He was frank, Just
and magnanimous. He spoke and wrote
with freedom that seemed almost reck-
less, and oftentimes was misunderstood,
as when he wrote his memories. His
death seems premature