The National tribune., 1893-04-06
GDN. JAMES M. FUTILE.

| GDN. JAMES NJ. TUTTLE.
| Second Dvision-Maj. Gen. Frank P. Blair
| jr First Brigade-Col. Giles A. Smitl,-113th
| 10th H.; 9th, 9th Mo-; 18th u S.-1st battal.
ion). Second Brigade-Col. T. Klby Smith
55th, 127th Ill., S3d Ind: 54th. 9th Ohio
Third Brigade-Brig. Gen. Hugh Ewing-3Oth
37th, 47th Ohio; 4th w. Va. Artillery-Bat.
| teries A. B and H, 1st ILL., Art; sih Ohio bat.
terry. Cavalry-Thielemann' Qil.) Indepen-
| dent battalion: 10th Mo-. Co. c.
Third Division-Brig.- Gen. James M. Tuttle.
First Brigade-Brig.- Gen. Ralph p. Buckland-
1l4th Ill.,; 93d Ind; I'D S5ih Ohio Second
| Brigads-Brig.-Gen. Joseph A. Mower-47th
gade-Col. Joseph J. Woods-stl, 10Th, 35th
Iowa. Artillery-Capt. Nelson r. Spoor-1st
III. Light. Battery E; Cd Iowa battery.
The strength of the corps as shown by the
returns for April 80. 1863, WAS as follows: Pres
ent for duty, 9S9 officers aud 16.064 men; ag-
gregate present 20,419; aggregate present and
absent, 27,s4l. with IS pieces of field artillery.
Ma. j.-Gen. William Teeumseh Sherman, the
commander of the corps, was horn in Lancaster,
o. Feb. s, 1920, and entered the United States
Military Academy July /. 1886. graduating
July l. 1910, and was promoted Second Lieu
tenant Sd Art, same day. He served in the
Florida war 1S40'42 and WAS promoted First
Lieutenant Nov. 30. 1S4l. In l846 he WIS
transferred to California, and served IN garrison
at Monterey, aud as Acting Assistant Adjutant-
General of the Department of California until
1850. having in the meantime obtained for
meritorious service brovet of Captain. On
Sept. q, 1850, be was appointed Captain and
Commissary aud served in that grade until
Sept. g. 1858, when he resigned his commission
in the Army.
On May Ia, 1861, he re-entered the military
service of the United States as Colonel 18th
Inf; was appointed Brigadier- r-G General of VOL
sst,ta haxv nd hntn .f
Volunteers May l. 1862. On July A. 1863. he
received his commission as Brgadier- General
u. s. Army; Aug. 12, 1854, rs Major General
u. g. Army; July %. 1866, as Lieutensnt- Gem
eral U. s. Army, and March 5, 1859, as General
u. 5. Army.
Gen. Shcrman's first service during tlIe late
war was as Brigade Gon,manc er in the Army of
the Potomac and in the Department of the
Cumberland. He succeeded Maj .-Gen. Robert
Anderson in command of that department on
Oct. g, 1861 On the 29fh of November, 1861.
tho Department. of the Cumberland was dis
continued and in its stead the Department Of
the Ohio was constituted, and Maj. .-Gen. Don
Carlos Buell. was assigned to command, Gen.
Sherman remaining until Dec. Is, 1861, when
he relinqnished command to Gen. Buell.. He
was next assigned to duty in the Department
of the Missouri. In March. 1862, he was in
command of division of the Army of the
Tennessee. participated in the battle of Shiloh,
siege of C0rinth, and the movement on Mem
phis. From Oct. 26 to Dec. 20. 1862. he was in
command Of the District of Memphis From
Dec. 20, 1862, to Jan. g. 1869, he commanded
the Mississippi River expedition against Vicks-
burg relino ouishing command on June A. 1863
to Maj -Gen John A. McCiernand. and on same
day assumed command of ths Fifteenth Corps,
then called the Second Corps, Army of the
Mississippi.
Gen. Sherman remained in command of the
Fifteenth Corps until Oct. "a 1863, when he was
assigned to command of the Army Of the Ten
nessee. From March 12, 1864, to June 81, 1866,
he was in command of the Military Division of
the Mississippi. composed of the Departments of
the Ohio, Cumberland and Tennessee, and from
June "a, 1865, to Aug II, 1885, of the new
division of that name, composed of the Depart
ments of the Ohio, Missouri and Arkansas, aud
of the Division of the Missouri from Aug IL,
1866, to March s. 1869. when he entered upon
his duties as General, U. S. Army. He was
retired from active service Feb g. 1884, upon
his own application, under the law of June
80, 1882 and died at his residence in the city of
New York, on the 14th of February, 1891.
Gen. Sherman's death was announced by the
President to Congress by the following mes
sage:
To the Senate and House Of Representatives.:
The death oi William Tecuni-ch Sherman, which
tos'k place. to-day Al his residence in te city OF New
York a. one o'clock and fifty minutes .. m, j. AN
event That will bring SORROW to the heart of every
patriotic citizen. No livias. a.esca,, $50. "a loved
anu vrneTfieti ~ he. To look upon his face TO
hear his name. was To have ones love al country
intensified. lie served bis cnunlry no, for fame.
not Out of sense of professional duty but Tor love
of tie flag aud Of ti,e ensieegb c vii institutions of
which II was the emblem.
lie wa Rn ideal soldier. and shared TO the full
est the esprit de corps Of the Army; bat he cher
Consultation, and WIS only n soldier that these
might be perpeintted in und:mini.hed useful
and s,,
profound student Of military science and pre-
cedeni, he drew from them principles and sug-
gestiuns, aud 40 adapted them TO novel conditions
that his campaigns will contiuue ba the profit
able study of The military profession throughout
the werld. His genial nature made him co,s.ratle
To every soldier OF the great Union Army. No
presence wac so welcome aud inspiring the
campfire comnandety as his His career was
complete; his honors were full.
He had received from the Government the
highest rank known 10 orr military establishment
and from the people unstinted gratitude aud love
No word oi fniise can add to his fame. His detth
has followed Ia startling quiekness that of the
Admiral OF The Navy, and il is "A sad and notable
incident That when the department uuder which
me served shall have put on The usual e,nbien,s of
mourning, four of the eight Executive Depart
ments will be simultaneously draped in black and
other has but day removed the Grape from
Its walls.
BENZ HARmsos.
Executive Mansion,
February IA. 1881.
The Secretary Of War also directed the fol-
lowing Executive order TO ba published to the
army:
EXECUTIVE ORDER:
IL Is eiy painful duty to announce 10 The coun-
try that Gen William Tecumeeh Sherman died this
day at O'clock sstd fifty niaite- p nI. at his
residence la the ei,y of New York. The Secretary
ot war viii cause the highest Military lionors be
paid 10 the memory of this distinguished afiiecr
The National flag will he ioatei al haif-inast over
all public buildings until after The burial and the
public isistess Win he spended in i.e Executive
departments ut iiie city Of Washington and ia tie
city where tile iBterneat taise place the dag of
lie funeral, and in ali places where pub ic pres
sion is given 10 tie National sorrow, during -u,ii
hours will enable every officer aud eriploye 10
participate therein with ihoir ieliow-ciiizcu-.
BENZ. HARRISON.
EXECUTIVE MAhsiOS,
Washington, ID. c.. February Il. 1891.