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Show Mb. Edwin T. Stanton, son of Lincoln's secretary of war, is reported as quite indignant in regard to Gen. Sherman's criticisms of his father. Sherman charges that Secretary Stanton's Stan-ton's interference in the matter of the cotton captured has given rise to the millions of cotton claims now pending in the courts and congress. He also charges that Stanton tried to make the country believo that he (Skerman) was a traitor. Young Stanton expecta soon to publish in book form the memoranda made by him as private secretary of his falher during the war, and says that ono of the interesting features of these mem-orandas mem-orandas would be the troubles his father had with Gen. Sherman. In a word, the great weakness ot Sherman was that at times he acted as if he thought himself grand mogul, president, presi-dent, commander-in-chief, secretary of war, congress, and everything else combined. |