The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-02-24
MEMOIRS OF GEN.
WIN. T. SHERMAN.
Closing Scenes in the Life of
the Great Soldier.
Death at Ripe Age-Esieem in which He
Was Held Evidenced Throughout the
Country-A Military Funeral-uis Last
Resting place.
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On Feb s, 1891, Gen Sherman on risins
said he had had very bad night. Thai
morning DIR. CT. Alexander was summoned
! The General spent the day reading Great
, Expectations, seated in n rocking hail
| before the fire in the room in which Mrs
Sherman died. The doctor came about
| O'Clock and pronounced his disease cry
| SlpelaS.
| On Monday the illness was so pronounc-
| ed that DIR. .janeway was called to consult;
| the two physicians agreeing that the nalady
was dangerous, all the members of the
| family were summoned, including Senator
! Sherman. On Tuesday morning Senator
| Sherman and the absent daughters arrived.
That day, Tuesday, the 10Th the even
| ing papers announced that the General
! was quite i'll in bed and that the Senator
| had been sent for.
| from this moment the press throughout
| the country teemed with bulletins, first of
hope, then OF dependency, and kilograms
| and messages OF anxious inquiry were
| showered upon the family from all quarters.
| Though the Generals mind was evi-
IDENTIFY affected by his malady, he re
| tanned sufficient consciousness TO re-
spond to all the requests and inquiries of
his physician, and TO obey the nurses
directions. Gentle and quiet as n child
without apparent suffering, he slowly sank
under the strong attacks OF his old enemy,
the asthma. For the erysipelas was mas
tered on Friday, but left the sick man an
easy prey to his lifelong foe.
At 1:5O p. m. on Saturday, February H.
he breathed his>JaSt as quietly as child
falls asleep
With painful reluctance the Presidents
request to allow the remains to be exposed
in Washington, and Il similar petition from
Gov. Campbell of Ohio, were declined. as
Gen. Sherman had LEFT express inStruc
tons that his body was not TO lie in state.
He had made express arrangements Tor
his funeral in st. Louis, including the per
m. s5ion of the Archbishop to admit mill
tary organizations to the cemetery, and
substituting the Catholic ritual for the rite
Of the Grand Army at the grave.
After s o'clock Saturday evening, the
house was guarded by soldiers from Cover
nor's Island. The body having been plac-
ed in the casket, the modest drawing
rooms were thrown open to give the public
an occasion to take a last glance at the
face of the General.
A ceaseless stream passed in single file
through the darl:ened chamber for two
days, many kneeling to say a prayer, and
others saluting as they passed the casket.
Gems. O. 0. Howard and II. ". Slocum
were asked by Senator Sherman to make
all ARRANGEMENTS for the funeral. They re-
sponded Immediately, and organized the
splendid pageant that did such honor to
their old chieftain. Gen Daniel Butterfield
was associated with them, acting as senior
aid and marshals of the funeral process
sion.
On Thursday, the 10Th, at noon, a quiet
funeral service was held, at which only
the members of the family were present.
The caSket was then closed, and the in
vited guests, including the President, his
Cabinet and other attendants, the Arch
bishops of New York and Philadelphia,
and many other distinguished persons
81. ~ 1f ha v
residence. The sound of the muftied
drums, and the quiet tramp, tramp, OF
the armed thousands assembling, gave the
relatives fair warning that they
were in martial hands, and they quietly
bided the word of command that placed |
them in the funeral train OF the Nations |
hero A paragraph from one OF the daily |
of the day, descriptive OF the |
funeral procession and its spectators, read: |
"The greatest tribute ever paid Sher |
man, il it was not the greatest ever paid |
TO the memory of any man in the world S |
history, was the manner in which this
vast, thOughtleSS, selfish city OF New York |
.ook his death There was no mistaklng |
he grief of the people. 1t was unfeigned,
cal, and sincere. No other person in the
world could have evoked such a feeling in
lis death; no man now lived for whom that
ceiling could be reawakened. The great.
less of the soldier was almost lost sight OF
n the regard for the citizen-admiration OF
he great Captain nearly forgotten in af-
ectiOn for the man.
THE desire of the people was not so
much for glimpse of the pageantry and
he brilliancy of military, naval, and civil
display, as for a chance to see the body of
he beloved hero borne by to its last abid
ng place, and to do honor to revered
memory with uncovered head.
Hours before the cavaicade turned out
18th street into Fifth avenue, that famous
was Il picture long to be re-
nembered. From the entering side street
o Washington Park, the people by tens OF
thousands had swept in from all direc-
ions, until they filled the spaces in al
1oSt innumerable masses. leaving mar
Dw line in the center OF the street, which
hundreds OF foot and mounted police strug-
led constantly to keep clear, and with
arying success. Not an inch on q door
tep or balcony, or window sill, or railing
r curbstOne was left unOccupied. Every
rec was heavy with human fruit, every
telegraph or electric light pole and lamp or
ign post bore from one to half a dozen
len, and people swarmed upon the house
ops, or lay with faces peeping over the
ayes at the wondr0us spectacle below.
ut was up this avenue that the splen
id catafalaue was drawn bearing the re- |
lans of Grant. Before it rode Sheridan
nd Hancock, and after it came Sherman
nd Logan and Porter Down the same
y |
on, grim in its plainness, drawn by four
rtillery horses. and carrying the body of
ne last of the great heroes of the war, in
soldiers funeral, borne to a soldiers
rave"
The pail bearers were:
Mai Gen. j. NJ Schofield Maj-Gen o.
Howard, Rear Admiral d. l.. Braine,
ear Admiral J. a. Greer, Prof. III. l.. Ken
rick, Gen. Joseph f. Johnston, Mai Gen.
!. w. Slocum. Mai Gen ID. +. Sickles,
ai Gen. G. NJ. Dodge. Mai Gen. j. NJ. ]
orse, Mai Gen. Wager Swayne, Mai Gen. I
tewart l.. WoOdfOrd 9
A splendid funeral train, munificently ,
-Ovided by the Pennsylvania Railroad. =
# Jersey City at Gas amid the tolling of /.
i the church bells Of that city. .
AS the train pas sed a lonely point on !
he route, a veteran in SLOUGH hat and old t
my belt emerged from a hut and as the I
ain passed brought his musket to the
present" standing there lone picket in 7
le desert waste.
The funeral in st. Louis was carried out
strict fufiiment of arrangements made !
Gen. Shermans directions two years
fore his death and confirmed by him in v
long conversation with his son, Mr.. p T.
Just one month previous TO his a
nal illness.
He desired to have in ST. Louis a full
ilitary funeral with Ransom Post of
&c Grand Army OF the Republic, of which c
was comrade, as personal escort. e
every point the Generals will was liter h