Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-25

| them to the best advantage.
Many of the loved and trusted leaders
| now belonged to history. The brilliant
| kearney and the Steadfast Stevens had
| fallen at Chantilly. in sight of the capt.
tai they were defending. Reno had died
at South Mountain as his corps had
| reached the crest it was asSaulting
| Mansfield and Richardson passed into the
| the beginning of the battle he opened at
Gettysburg. Grand old John Sedgwick
had fallen beneath a sharpshooters bull
| let at Spotsylvania, and that superb en-
James S. Wadsworth. had received the
last of his wounds in the Wilderness.
Sherman's Conquering Hosts.
! THE next day came another host
mighty as the first. vying with it in the
greatness of it's history and the magni-
| tude of it's ievements-strangely like
| it in many things, strangely unlike in
others.
| 1T was Shermans army marching into
| The capital from the conquest of half
a continent. ending on the banks of the
Potomac march begun four years be-
| fore, two thousand miles away on the
| banks of the Ohio.
They were all western men. The state
| builders of the great country beyond
the Alleghenies. Their battle flags bore
|
Shiloh 'Corinth.' 'Perryville.' stone
River 'Vicksburg.' 'Chickamauga.' Mis-
sion Ridge Atlanta Savannah, Caro-
linas.' 'Bentonville' and a thousand
ed the peoples hearts to the core.
Restless and Aggressive Fighters.
| "They were restless. aggressive men:
| tigerlike in attack and wild boars on
| the defense. who had hunted down and
| fought their enemies in every state in
| the Confederacy. No mountain top was
too rugged, no swampy fastness too
impenetrable to shelter any man who
drew a sword or raised flag in hos
/ tility to the government. While the
Army of the Potomac was chained to
Washington and fought all it's battles
within d few score miles of the capital.
they marched and fought over territory
| exceeding that of the battling grounds
of all Europe.
Their appearance showed they were
wider rangers, freer lances than the
latter approached more nearly the reg
ular army model of dress, marching
and maneuvers.
Careless as to Dress and Equipments.
1.-The western army was rather care
less as to dress and equipments, only
caring to have enough to show that
bother much about proper cadence and
absolute perfection of alignment, but
moved with the long, swinging stride
which had carried them with marvellous
swiftness over eleven states.
AT their head rode the general-in-
with the laurels of Atlanta, the march
to the sea. through the Carolinas, and
the surrender of Johnston still recent
and fresh. Tall and sinewy. with rug
n ha o1
the ideal leader of battle and conquest.
BY his side, with armless sleeve, rode
one of his principal lieutenants Oliver
O. Howard. the Christian soldier and
the commander of the Army of the
Tennessee from Atlanta to Washing-
ton.
Logan Heads Army of the Tennessee
There now rode at the head of the
Army of the Tennessee John A. Logan.
the greatest volunteer general of the
war. whose sword had won him that
eminence from the starting point of
colonel of a regiment.
The 18th Corps. which had been
commanded by Sherman in the Vicks-
burg campaign, and afterward by
through the Carolinas, was led by
William B. Hazen. the hero of Fort
McAllister
The 18th. McPherson's old corps,
was commanded by Frank P Blair,
the soldier-politician, who. with Ma
thaniel Lyon. had saved Missouri to
the Union.
THE Army of Georgia was COM
manded by the quiet. scholarly Henry
w. Slocum, whose face reminded one
of Dante's.
The 10th Corps was commanded by
Fighting Joe Mower who had en-
tered the army in 1s47 as a private
in the engineers. and had been made
M In ha nf 81 ,o
Salkehatchie.
Pap" Thomas 14th Army Corps.
The 14th Army Corps. which Pap
Thomas had fashioned and made the
Rock of Chickamauga. was com
manded by dark-faced. sour-looking
Jefferson c. Davis. every inch a SOL
dier. who had given the best taste of
his quality at Pea Ridge, when. hav-
ing fought successful fight through,
at great loss. on one part of the line.
had led his brigade at once to another
part and helped win the battle there.
The triumphant troops missed on
the reviewing stand the face of all
others they had most longed to see.
that of the great-hearted. kindly Lin
coin. who had fallen beneath the as
sassin's bullet a few weeks before.
His place was taken by President
Johnson. At his side stood the great
Stanton. Secretary of War.
Grant Never Fought But to Win.
Most interesting of all in that group
was the ruddy- bearded. stoop-shoul-
dered. quiet man with three stars in
his straps, who had commanded all
the armies of the United States in the
last decisive year of the war. tan
ner's clerk when the war began; a
colonel in his first campaign, who won
every promotion by success upon the
field of battle; who was constantly
called to come up higher because he
had done so well below; who had
never fought but to win, and never
organized but to succeed.
The end of the war saw him the
sole commander of million battle
trained veterans, the mightiest host
in every way that the world had ever
seen subject to one mans will and
there was but one voice to eminent
fitness for that pinnacle of unprece-
denied greatness Of Lieut.. Gen. Ulysses
Grant"
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