The National tribune., 1896-08-06
SHERMAN'S MEMOIRS.
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the letters U. So on everything, includ-
ing his desk, papers, etc | asked him
IL He DID NOT FEEL FUNNY

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ing his desk, papers, etc | asked him
IF He DID NOT FEEL FUNNY.
No, not at all The thing was In
evitable; secession was complete sue
cess; there would be no war, but the two
Governments would settle all matters of
business in friendly spirit, and each
would go on in its allotted sphere with
out further confusion"
About this date, Feb. 16, Gen. Twiggs,
Myerss father-in-law, had surrendered
his entire command, in the Department
of Texas, to some State troops, with all
the Government property, thus consum-
mating the first serious step in the drama
of the conspiracy, which was to form a
confederacy of the cotton States, before
working upon the other slave or border
States, and before the 4th of March, the
day for the Inauguration of President
Lincoln.
| walked the streets of New Orleans,
and found business going along as usual.
Ships were strung for miles along the
lower levee, and steamboats, above, all
discharging or receiving cargo. The
Pelican flag of Louisiana was flying
over the Customhouse, Mint, City Hall,
and everywhere. At the levee, ships
carried every flag ON earth except that
of the United States; and | was told
that during procession on the 22d of
February, celebrating their emancipa-
ton from the despotism of the United
States Government, only one National
flag was shown from a house, and that
the house of Cuthbert Bullitt, on La
fayette Square. He was commanded to
take it down, but he refused, and de-
Tended it with his pistol.
The only officer of the Army that
/ can recall as being there at the time,
who was faithful, was Col. G. l.. Kill
burn, Of the Commissary Department,
and he was preparing to escape North.
Everybody regarded the change of
Government as final; that Louisiana,
by a mere declaration, was a free and
Independent State, and could enter into
any new alliance or combination she
chose.
Men were being enlisted and armed
to defend the State, and there was not
the least evidence that the National
Administration designed to make any
effort by force to vindicate the National
authority. / therefore bade adieu to all
my friends, and about the 25th of Feb
ruary took my departure by railroad for
Lancaster, via Cairo and Cincinnati.
Before leaving this subject, I will SIM
ply record
| THE FATE OF SOME OF sfY ASSOCIATES.
The Seminary was dispersed by the war,
and all the Professors and Cadets took
service in the Confederacy, except Val
las, St. Ange, and Cadet TaIiaferro. The
latter joined Union regiment as Lieu
tenant after New Orleans was retaken by
the United States fleet, under Farragut.
[ think that both Vallas and ST. Ange
have died in poverty since the war;
Mai. Smith joined the rebel army in
Virginia, and was killed in April, 1865,
as he was Withdrawing his garrison by
night from the batteries at Drury's Bluff,
at the time Gen. Lee began his final re-
treat from Richmond. Boyd became a
Captain of Engineers on the staff of
Gen. Richard Taylor, was captured, and
was in Jail at Natchez, Miss, when L
was on my Meridian expedition. He
succeeded in getting letter to me on
my arrival at Vicksburg, and, on my
way down to New Orleans, | stopped at
Natchez, took him along, and enabled
him to effect an exchange through Gen.
Banks. As SOON as the war was over,
he returned to Alexandria, and reorgan-
lied the old institution, where visited
him in 1867 but, the next Winter, the
building took fire and burned to the
ground. The students, library, appara-
tus, ETC., were transferred to Baton
Rouge, where the same institution now
is, under the title of the Louisiana Uni
versity. [ have been able to do them
many acts of kindness, and am still in
correspondence with Col. Boyd, its Presi-
dent.
Gen. 6. Mason Graham is still living