Show AN INTERRUPTED JOURNEY Father Thomas Thoms Sherman son of Gen General General General eral William WilHam T Sherman will not march to the sea through Georgia along the route taken by his famous father some years ago The clergy clergyman clergyman clergyman man had an idea that he would like to traverse this route Secretary Taft liked the idea and detailed two cavalry lieutenants two noncommissioned officers officers cers cern and six privates of ot the regular army to attend him Father Sherman donned the chaplains uniform he wore in the Spanish war and set out for Chickamauga last Sunday night He gone more than a few miles mUes before the people of ot the south be began began began gan to protest Their memories of the theother other ther Sherman march to the sea were were not of ot the The southerners i have never been able to forget though most of ot them have forgiven the wide swath of f ruin and destruction cut by General Sherman on his famous famo s pil pilgrimage pilgrImage grimage The first Sherman march was wasa a military necessity Although it in involved involved voWed no great danger to the invading army for the reason that most of the able bodied men who might have op opposed opposed opposed posed him were fighting in other fields it was a a brilliantly executed feat and andon andon andon on it rests most of ot General Shermans claim to glory It may seem to some that the protest of the south against the second Sher Sherman Sherman Sherman man march an entirely peaceful affair indicates too much sensitiveness There will be those who will say that there was no real occasion for the objection But who among us would like to have havethe havethe havethe the scar of an old wound reopened Who cares to be reminded of a bitter humiliation If It Father Sherman had undertaken the trip by himself or with one or two civilian companions it is to be doubted If It any objection would have been raised to it There was altogether too much preliminary blare bl re of trumpets there were too many soldiers In the party Secretary Taft did well to call the sol soldiers soldiers soldiers diers In and Father Sherman did well to abandon his trip The father said it was not his intention to recall old sores sores to the people of Georgia Georg a and South Carolina and he was very sorry indeed that his purpose had been misunderstood misunderstood stood |