The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-10-14


J, varsaton took place,
Are you sure that you have not the
right fagl You know there we're
about forty of those fagsT
Eyes, we are sure about ", for we
A got II from We son Of The man who
waved The signalg
u @Weil, 1 am glad you have got the
!. right one, and there IL no mistake
about 1t. The man who waved the
sigg1 ought TO know
i Pietty soon the committee moved 70
another part Of the car, and General
4 Sherman turned 10 me with one Of his
hearty laughs. "You heard,n said he,
what that man said about the flag.
i He has got the right one and no mis-
take; he got II from the son Of the
man who waved the signal. Well, all
Y / have 10 say about II is that ! never
sent any such message. I wasn't COM
Ing but ! was going. had ordered
Corse TO Altoona. but did not know
whether he had got there, and ! sig
nailed, Where is Corser the answer
came back that he was in the fort and
4 was able to whip hell. think he was
i minus an ear and nose or something
Of that sort. 1t Is queer how those
relics multiply
4 As the train pulled into the station
1T Indianapolis the band struck up
Marching through Georgia and Sher-
\ man looked and said: II had known
,lI was to be followed everywhere by
such tune as that. III be id II /
would ever have ried to march through
Georgia
/ One time / asked him in regard TO a
ssspy that had been told in some news
paper about his having said in sub
stance, that he and Sheridan would
often 20 TO Grants headquarters and
each outline plan Of campaign; that
Grant would listen to them, and then
In half a dozen words point out the inn
practicabiIity Of the plans they sug-
Qested. and In another half dozen
| words outline one Of his own plans, no
mastery that he and Sheridan would
Immediately give II their endorsement
Y He said:
Nothing In it. First, Sheridan and
1 II never served together except q few
months, and at that time he was only
commander of a division. II the pa
Der had said Mcpherson there would
have been more probability In it, but
even then no truth. Grant did not
often consult any OF us, and do not
remember his ever giving to me any OF
his plans, except at vicksburg. Grant
was man Of his own mind; made
his own plans, and all we had to do
was to carry them out. MCPHERSON
was superior soldier and more than
| any one else enjoyed the confidence Of
! Grant. but do not think he was taken
!, into confidence when campaign was
/ being planned. The Western army was
a great army with corps Of brigade
) and division commanders unexcelied
, WHY. with that army / could hay'
/ overturned every power in Europe.
The Confederate General John D
! Gordon was very much like Sherman
!, in his breezy way Of talking. ! me
i him once when he was on one OF hi
lecturing tours and enjoyed seyera
hours OF his brilliant conversation.
He possessed great dramatic powers \
! describing battle scenes. In listening
! s, the whole battle panoram'
: moved before you, and You could al
= most think you heard the rattle OF tn
J musketry and the laundering Of tn
! cannon. We were talking about disa
! pointments when he said:
nj Il was many times disappointed as t
! results. but twice the Disappointment
!. were actually heartbreaking. In both
u / could have cursed fate with as niue
e vim as the army swore in Flanders lh
! ,irst was at Cedar Creek. We had jus
surprised and beaten Sheridan's arm,
to d frazzle. Oh, it was Just beautiful
! the way our plans worked out. In a.
! the war there had been no defeat NOR
complete. With the exception OF
small nucleus Sheridan's army was
3 abble, and that nucleus we could hav
! :, DESTROYED in another half hour. Gu
men were elated and nothing the fed
! ! erals could have done would hay
: stopped them. In the very midst Q
! our triumph we stopped-not fror
! anything the enemy did, but becaus
our commander thought we had wo
i enough glory for one day II was ac
y y tually heart breaking, and before nigh
Y ii turned out to be army breaking, an
: : it was not Sheridan's army, either
|, I, but our army, that had been 50 trium
: : phant III the morning,
o "The other occasion was during tn
d first days fight in the wilderness;
!. From some strange fatuity Sedgwicl
= had his flank in the air, and was with
= out pickeis or patrols. I discovers
!. this and proposed to move around nj
It exposed flank, taking him in flank an
"a rear. could have doubled him Y
N like carpenters rule and rolled mn