The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-02

honored ana influential sooiai poait,on te
serve in the army. Gen. Ord speaks in high
terms OF him as an onncer. Tho chief OF nrtil
lery, Col-- IL an ass. The chief quarter
master. Lieut.. Col. Dunlap, Gen. Netherlands father
in.lav, lately resigned his commission. He was in
competent, and Is said to have been dishonest. Our
commission here At Cairo last summer reported facts
that proved him to have been the former; OF the
charges OF sten,inr I know nothing. His successor
has not yet been appointed. The chief comnissary,
Lieut. col, Tapnnrt, IL n fussy fellow, who, with much
show, accompanies but little. Gen. McClerrands
aides went away with him or are absent on leave.
Not n man of them is worth having. Tho engineer on
his atan. Lieut.. Hams. ia an industrious and useful
oricer. Tho medical director, DR.. Hammond, has
lust been appointed.
In the FIft.entb corps staT nil have 10 he working
men. for sherman tolerates no idlers and finds some.
thing for everybody TO do. II an onicer proves unnt
for his position. he shifts him to some other place.
Thus hs Adiutant. Lieut,.Col, Hammond, a restless
Kontuctian. kept everything in a row as long rs he
remained in that once, Sherman has accordingly
made him Inspector. General. and during the last
two months has kept him constantly employed on
ncoutinp parties. In ha place ns Adjutaut IL Cant.
SAWYER. a quiet, industrious, efficient person. Tho
chief OF artillery, Major TAYLOR, directed by sher-
mans omnipresent eye and quick Judgment,
Is an or1cer OF great value. though under another
General no might not be worth so much. Tho
chief engineer, Capt. Pitzman, wounded about July
10. 10 q man OF merit. and his departure was q great
loss 10 the regular ranks. Gen. Sherman has three
aidesdecamp Capt. Mccoy, Capt. Dayton, and Lieut..
Hill, and, as 1 have said, neither Of them holds a sine
cure ONCE. His medical director. DR.. Mcmillan, ia q
good physician, I believe; he has been In a constant
contention with DR.. Mills. The a~uartermaster. Lieut..
Col. J. G. Smith. Is n most efficient onlcer; he has
been doing duty as commissary also.
On the whole, Gen. Sherman has a very small and
very efficient stan; hut the efficiency comes mainly
from him. What q splendid soldier he Isl
The stan of the Seventeenth Army Corps is the most
complete. the most numerous, and in some respects
the most serviceable in this army.
The Adjutant.General, Lieut.. Col. Clark, Is q per
son Of uncommon quickness. is always at work, and
keeps everything in his department in nrstrate
order. Tho InspectorGencral, Lieut.. Col. Strong,
does his duties with promptucss and thoroughness;
his reports are models. The chief OF artillery.
Lieut.. Col. Powell, thoroughly understands his bust.
ness ana a'.enus 20 ~ o,neenly. n frovos' mar.
industrious nan Roth rho ouortermaster and com.
missary arc now men, Captains. and I do not know
them; but Mcpherson speaks highly OF them. The
medical director. DR.. Boucher. has the reputation of
keeping his hospitals in better order and making his
reports more promptly and satisfactorily than any
other medical ofcer in this army. Gen. Mcpherson
has four aides-de-camp-Capt. Steele. Capt. Gle.
Lieut.. Knox. and Lieut.. Vernay. The last OF these In
the pest ana Capt. s'eeie ID NEXT MN. inc engi'
heer omeer, capt h'ckehiooper' q iaoor'ouS man.
qu,ok' waeenia,' !. o Oh e.eaI capacity. n
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T do NOT now recall anv oncer or .rtr,ordin.rv
c,n.c,,v Thai. nav h. s,,h hut 7 h,,a M, "a.
their acquaintance. On the other hard. 7 have mad,
the acquaintance of some who seemed quite unfit
for their places. 1 must not omit. however, 70 speak
here OF Capt. Tresil;an. engineer on the stan of
MaiorGen. Logan. His general services during the
siege were not conspicuous. but he deserves great
credit FOR constructing the wooden mOrtars which
Gen. Mcpherson used near Its close with most
remarkable eject. Both the idea and the work were
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LIFE BEHIND 'ioksboha'
We had not been many days in tho rear of
Vicksburs before we settled into regular habits.
The MEN were detailed in reliefs for work in the
trenches, and being relieved at fixed hours.
everybody seemed to lead a systematic life.
My chief duty throughout the siege was a
daily round through the trenches, generally
with the corps commander or some one of his
staff. AS the lines OF investment were six or
seven miles long, it occupied the greater part of
my day; sometimes 1 made a portion of my tour
OF inspection in the night. One night in riding
through the trenches 1 must have passed
2o.ooo men asleep on their arms. l still
can see the grotesque positions into which
they mad CURED themselves. The trenches
were SO protected that there was no dan
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venture on the Nils overlooking Nlcksourg. L
went on 1oot ana alone one day to the top OF a
nil. and was looking at the town. when /
suddenly heard something go whizz. whiZz,
by my ear. "What in the world Is that q 1
asked myself. The place was SO desolatc that it
was an instant before l could believe that these
were bullets intended for me. When I came TO
understand II immediatelv started to lie down
Then c,ne tho ouestion witch 10 the heat 4,
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