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Show Immediate steps to relieve me, assupcr-intendent, assupcr-intendent, the moment the state determines deter-mines to secede; for od no earthly no-count no-count will 1 do any act, or tbiuk any thought hostile to, or in deliauce of, the old government of the United States." His resignation was accepted. He went to St. Louis and just before tho attack on Fort Suiupter he repaired to Washington where he had an interview with the president and secretary of war. He laid before them his views, which were regarded as excitablo and imaginative, imagin-ative, the president clinging to the idea that it was an "artilicial excitement," and in reply to Sherman's protestations and earnest representations said, "We sha'ut need many men like you, the whole affair will soon blow over." He was so astounded at the ignorance, apathy and incredulity of the government govern-ment that he addressed a letter to the secretary of war, Cameron, stating that he had been educated at the expense of The assault was without avail and he finally re-embarked his troops, Gener-al Gener-al MoCleruand now arrived and took command and Sherman was sent up the 'Arkansas river to take Arkansas Post. heu he was supelscded ho exhorted the troops to give the same cheerful obedience to their new commauder that they had to him, saying in reference to tho" failure to take Vicksburg, "ours was but a part of a combined movement in which other were to assist. Wo .were in time; unforsee.n contingencies must have delayed the others." Seven days afterwards Arkansas Post was captured. cap-tured. When tho uext and successful expedition expe-dition against Vicksburg was commenced com-menced Sherman commanded the fifteenth fif-teenth army corps. He acted in concert con-cert with Toner's fleet when the latter was hemmed in the Yazoo. Grant finally adopted the bold resolution reso-lution of running the rebel batteries, and Sherman's corps were left behind to await the completion of the roads and then to make a feint on Hayne's bluff while Grant with Mcl'leruand'a y and was moving toward Virginia. He then moved his army back to Chatta-noga Chatta-noga bv easy stages. In January he was again in V icksburg icks-burg and at the close of the month or-gaui.ed or-gaui.ed the expedition into Central Mississippi which at the time caused tremendous excitement both m the north and bouth. With 20,000 infantry and 1200 cavalry he started on the ild of February from Vicksburg. pushed east across the state of Mississippi. to M''r"1: ian, his design being to cut Mobile off from Johnson, break up Polks army and then go to Mobile.in front of which was Farragut. Smith who was to join him was defeated, breaking the plan and Sherman returned to Vicksburg. (irnnt had been appointed lieutenant-general lieutenant-general in March, and when he went to Virginia Sherman was made commander com-mander of tho military division of the Mississippi, embracing all the armies between the Mississippi river and tho Allegheny. Then began the two grand movements, which were to end jhe rebellion, Grant was to move on Lee at Richmond and Sherman on At 10 a. in. General Sherman is sink- ing rapidly. The end is expected soon. At 10 o'clock General Thomas Ewlng, jr., said, "no more bulletins will be is-Miod is-Miod until the final one. The general remains at the point of death and it is only a question of a few minutes," At 11 a. ra. General Sherman's condition con-dition has remained unchanged for the last hour. 11:25 a. in. It is only a question of a few minutes, it is now said. 12 o'clock Tho general's condition remains unchanged since the last bulletin. bulle-tin. The family is still at the bedside. Death Is momentarily expected. 1:50. General Shermau is dead. The last of the trio of great soldiers of the late war, tho comrade of Grant and Sheridan, has gone to his last muster. mus-ter. At 1:30 o'clock ho passed out of the battle in this earthly life to join tho innumerable host that had gono before. Let the drums b muffled, the colors dip and sound the bugle taps. A free nation, free thanks to such as V. T. Sherman, stands with bowed head at the bier of the gallant American soldier. sol-dier. During the forenoon as the hours passed by every inquirer who called at the general's house was told that all hope had been abandoned and his relatives rela-tives and attendants were merely waiting wait-ing for the end and endeavoring to make his last hours as freo from suffering suffer-ing ns possible. Among those who called were Cyrus W. Field and Mrs. U. S. Grant. As on preceding days since it became known that General Sherman lay at death's door, knolsof people gathered the United States, and owed everything to his country, had come to tendir his military services and declared in solemn language that war was inevitable and that the secretary of war was unprepared unpre-pared for it. The fall of Sumptor convinced con-vinced tho government that be was right aud the call for 75,000 men was issued. Sherman was urged to go home to Ohio and superintend the organization organiza-tion of troops. The proposition was rejected re-jected with scorn. His idea was organize! organ-ize! Said he, "organize for a gigantic war at once; call out the whole military power of the country and with overwhelming, over-whelming, irresistable force, strangle the rebellion in its very birth." Further Fur-ther upon being urged to an important command he replied, "I do not wish a prominent place, this is to be a long and bloody war." He was finally made colonel in the regular army and assigned as-signed to the command of the thirteenth infantry. . In the battle of Bull Run he commanded com-manded the third brigade in Tyler's division di-vision which held the position in front corps attacked Grand Gulf. Shermau embarked his troops on transports and in company with gun boats proceeded at once to the scene of his former dis-comforture dis-comforture and on the 20th of April stood in battle array while the gunboats kept up a bombardment. Finally after several days' maneuvering a message arrived from Grant announcing the fall of Grand Gu'f and directing him to join him. In three days he reached Hard Times, sixty miles distant, marching over horrible roads, he crossed the Mississippi Mis-sissippi on the 7th and on May 8th marched to Hankinsou's Ferry. The city of Jackson was captured and Sherman was left there to destroy the public property. He with his corps did some extraordinary marching and on the 22d participated in the grand assault. as-sault. Ho continued to hold the right during the long siege that followed. Vicksburg was to be assaulted on the 0th of July, but surrendered two days earlier, and Sherman who had been ordered or-dered to Jitcksoi where Johnston had concentrated a largo number of troops, whirled about and confronted the rebel Johnston at Atlanta. Sherman asked for a hundred thousand men and two hundred and iifty pieces of artillery. He started with this number almost with tho army of the Cumberland, Thomas commanding 00, 77a men; army of tho Tennessee, McPherson com-mrnding, com-mrnding, 20.405 men and the army of the Ohio, Scholield commanding, 13,-55'J 13,-55'J men and 254 pieces of cannon. The Atleula Campaign was begun on the tith of May. It ended on the lirst of September, when he rode into the city of Atlanta. The opening engagemon't was at llesaca, one of the strongest positions of the rebels, and after several davs of more or less severe lighting, was successful, and Johnston was forced to retreat to Ailatoona. Then followed tho bailies of Dallas ami New Hope church, and tho 4th of June the rebels retreated to Kencsaw, Pine and Lost mountain. On Juno 27th the battle of kenesaw mountain was fought, wherein Sherman's Sher-man's armv was repulsed. Hve days aftcrwardsJohnson evacuated his strong built thereon a military system of his own, which entirely revolutionized tho ono universally accepted, and by bis marvelous combinations and rapid movements overwhelmed his foes, deserves the famo he bore once, then Sherman by his daring originality in moving so far from his base," yet still acting with mathematical mathe-matical precision and certainty and winning victory, not by good fortune, but by profound calculations, merits a place amotig the foremost generals of the world. The Atlanta campaign will be a study for military men in all future time." The March to the Sea. The fall of Atlanta was a terrible blow to tho confederacy. Jen" Davis hastened from the capital to Goorgia to try by his presence to raise the courage of the people and desperate methods were resorted to. Tho capture of Atlanta At-lanta excited great exultation among it... lT:..:n. Tk. u; : .. ..t ,i. mmm. The Grand Old Warrior Knds the ISiittle and Surrenders to Death. The March to the Sea of Eternity is Be-gun. Be-gun. the Goal ii Beached, the Last Mutter is Over. ATLANTA'S HERO 18 AT EEST. The End Came Peacefully and Quietly at 1 .'Mi OVIock Today. A Nation Standi With Bowed Heads at the Bier of the Gallant American Soldier. A NEW REVEILLE IS SOUNDED. And in tit Great Beyond, Lincoln, Grant, Nherldan, Logan, Porter and Sherman Again Clasp Hands. New York, Feb. 11. All night long General Sherman wavered between life and death. Ho continued tho fight , bravely, the hopeless battle. Flarly in the evening bis physicians knew the end was approaching slowly but surely. The swelling in his face and neck had disappeared, but with the subsidence of theso symptoms erysipelas came, and a development of lung trouble, complicated compli-cated with a return of long standing asthma. Mucus began once more to accumulate iu his lungs, and the first signs of passive pueumonia became apparent. ap-parent. At 11:30 o'clock last night the dying soldier awoke, but only to continue breathing, as it required all his efforts. At midnight sleep had come to the relief of the sufferer. At 1 .o'clock this morning the general gen-eral was still slumbering and no change had occurred iii his condition Fo far as could be determined, by the 'doctors. The house was closed for the ; ' night. ,-.-.. . . ), , At 8:00 a. m. there was no apparent -et-At 3:io he could detect, no .change, e-1' e-1' I !' ;'c'eptihg the" ..tho generals, inspirations .4 ' had 'considerably increased which . causfl.lsomci anxiety. '' With tho excep tion of heavy breathing at 5:30 no change could be discerned. An hour later a decided change for the worse set in. Another hour and all members 111 tne street near his home, talking to each other in low tones of the c'ying soldier. sol-dier. At 1:50 p.m. his servant came out of the house and told a policeman on guard that the end had come and that the general at last had surrendered. surren-dered. From Secretary Barrett it was learned learn-ed that General Sherman remained unconscious un-conscious to tho last, dying with no visible vis-ible pain. The general passed' away without speaking to any member of his family which had gathered about his bed. Three daughters were present and his sou P. T. Sherman and Senator Sherman Sher-man and also the attending physician. Secretary Barrett and some other friends were in the room below and soon after 2 o'clock Barrett jveut to the Western Union office and sent off 'a number of dispatches to Washington in' which Jie announced -the. hour of jdcatl) it I 0 p. fniv ,.;- v. '' Kuneral services over the remains of the general will take plare on Thursday Thurs-day from his late residence,' though It may be deferred if his eon does not arrive ar-rive on that day from Europe on the Majestic. ; Thursday evening the body wilL be taken to St. Louis in special train and wilt bo interred there. It will be in charge of General Sehofield and will be accompanied bv a delegation from l'xst Lafayetto, G. A. K., of this city. Tcvv-r ' ' 7-'t ' ' tidy) . tiS ' ' - AiAM- - ' end appeared. The march to the sea was begun. Abandoning his communications with t'haltanooga. leaving Atlanta in ruins, with 65,000 men on the 14th of November Novem-ber tho famous march was begun. His plan was to obtain subsistence from the country through which he passed and to destroy the railroads and other public pub-lic property. His array moved in three columns. It passed between Macon and Augusta, had several skirmishes with the enemy's cavalry and arrived after a very safe and, successful march at the outworks of Savannah on the lOtb of December "We have not lost a wagon on the trip and our trains art in better condition than when we started" is tbe way the old general telegraphed It. . On December 20tn Hardee evacuated Saynnnnh, and on the 21st Shermanoc-" Shermanoc-" -,Vity, ' On this march of 600 " st 3 killed and 245 wounded. ,,wfiiitfch to the sea was finished. , On January 15, Sherman, with his blue coated veterans, left Savannah and began thoir northward march,' On February l?th Columbia was captured. This compelled the eueiny to evacuate Charlfston, which wa occupied by Sherman on the lfth, Proposing to co-, operate or uuite with General Grant's army, which was then near Petersburg, Peters-burg, Va. Sherman moved by way of C'heraw and Fayettville towards Goldsborougb. At Averys-borough Averys-borough on March 10th, ho met and defeated a body of confederates. confeder-ates. On the 18th tho combined force of the enemy under General J. Johnston attacked the union army at Bentonville. This attack Sherman repulsed re-pulsed and on the 2yd of March entered GoUlshorough and there formed a junction with Scholield. On April 8d he moved agalngt the army of Johnston, then the only remaining re-maining strategelic point. He entered Kaleitih on the 13th, had an interview with Johnston on the 17th and agreed with him on a truce of peace which was disproved by tho president presi-dent aud cabinet, his terms being deemed too liberal, and on tbe 2(ith Johnson surrendered his army on the same terms as were granted to Leo. The march to the sea had been made, the march to the north was finished, the war was at an end. Sherman was victorious. In August. 1801, Sherman was appointed ap-pointed a major-general in the regular army. In August 1806 he was inade lieutenant-general iu place of General Grant, promoted general. In 1HI18 he was nominated general by brevet by of tho family were summoned. Death seemed uear, but tho uneonijuered soldier sol-dier was s'tiil conqueror and he lay suf-. suf-. 5 . taring, hut refused to succumb; thus was passed the next few hours. At 8:20 Senator Sherman telegraphed his family nt Washington that his brother was alive, but only faintly conscious. con-scious. Ho was npparenlly without pain, but his breathing was labored, and his strength diminishing. At this time the physicians were holding a consultation. When it was over, it was given out that the general's condition was hopeless, and that the end was rapidly approaching, His bronchial trouble was making rapid progress. When asked if there was the slightest ray of hope, one of the physicians re- Meftna;e of lolidnienc. Hauiiisbi uc, Feb. 14 Governor Pat-tison Pat-tison sent this message to P. T. Sherman: Sher-man: ' I desire lo PX'in-ss the sincere Rvmpnthyof t)T peo' Perm yivmli fur !& f .inily of O-ne al s .i-rmni. of vh S' death I have just o 1 ,j iit -1 t"l. His pit. iot c. fa Ihf il an 1 in -vluil le serv i es In hts country will ejer be giatefuily rem nib rut, The Now in Hoetnn. Boston, Feb. 14. General Sherman's death was generally announced to the citizens by the tolling of lire alarm belis. Tho Hags on stale, municipal and federal buildings were ordered at half mast. William Teiumeh Sherman Was born in Lancaster, Fairlield county. coun-ty. Ohio, February 8th, 1820. Hisfather being an admirer of the great Indian Chief, Teeumseh, gave him that name. Three years after Tecumseh's birih, the father was elected judge of the superior court of Ohio, which position he held until his death, in 1829. He was sud-.l..i sud-.l..i i,t,.n ;n ...v,;i ,u.. i -i. i plied: "Not the least hope remains. The General cannot possibly survive the day." Soon after tho substance of this answer was officially announced as a ', result of the consultation, to a score of anxious people awaiting information. , V i This bulletin was a profound surprise. While it was known that the general . was very low, yet somehow the idea I: had gotten abroad that he was going to 4? pull through. ' New Voiik, Feb. 11. Bulletin. , The following bulletin has just been i issued: 8:20 a. m. The physicians af-' af-' Jer consultation declared that General Sherman's condition is now hopeless. He is dying and the end is near. ! w.iiljr i ' . rv v. u in nilllD UII LUC UCUUIl, HIH1 died away, from home a victim of Cholera. At the death of his father, William was only nine years old, and was one of eleven children left to the care of the widow. The Hon. Thomas Ewing, a friend of the father, proposed to adopt William as his sou and provide for his education and entrance into public life. This proposal was accepted aud placing him in tho academy in Lancaster he was kept at school until sixteen, when he was sent to West Point. Ho graduated gradu-ated four years afterward, in 1840, the sixth in his class and entered the service ser-vice as second lieutenant of the Third artillery. Being ordered to Florida, he served there until the uext year, when in November, 1841, ho was made lirst lieutenant and was afterward stationed at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina. In 1810. he was sent to California of the stone bridge, while Hunter and! lleintelman, were making their wide flank movement to the right. Wheu Burnside was nearly overpowered by the enemy, Sherman effected ajunction with Hunter's division aud moving swiftly forward he poured a murderous volley, held his soldiers to their work, and broke the enemy's lines. Two-thirds Two-thirds of the loss fell on his single brigade, brig-ade, while it was a fifth of that of the whole army. On the 3d of August 1861, he was made brigadier general of volunteers and was made second in command to General Anderson in Kentucky, and with 7000 men, volunteers and home guards, occupied Muldraugh's Hill. Anderson shortly resigned and Sherman Sher-man nssumed supreme command and at once asked for reinforcements as Buck-ner Buck-ner was opposing him with 25,000 men while he had only 5000. Adjutant General Gen-eral Thomas visited him and when he was informed that CO.OOO men were needed at onco and 200,000 for hnal success suc-cess laughed the ida as absurd. It was this that caused him to be denounced de-nounced as crazv and moonstruck. So chagrined was he over this that he asked to be relieved which reqtiest was granted and Buell was put in his place, Sherman going to Jefferson Barracks. Here it was thought ho would recover his sanity. Grant," however, appreciated him and when the former took position at Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh Landing he placed Sherman in command of the fifth division. He was every wheru in the bloody battle that general in Jackson and compelled his evacuation. On September 22d he wns ordered to Chattanooga ami tho same day the division divi-sion was off and the day following his whole army, but ho did not reach Memphis Mem-phis until the beginning of October. On the way up his boy named after him. known as Sergeant Willie, and who with his wife and- family visited him, died, and while at Memphis he wrote a letter to his old regiment the Thirteenth infantry regarding hisdeath that was touching in the extreme. Oil November 15th he rode into Chattanooga Chat-tanooga and was warmly welcomed by Grant on ihe 2od. He had three divisions divi-sions up the river concealed behind the hills opposite Chattauooga creek. One hundred and sixteen pontoons were also coocealed and that night were floated down into tlie Tennessee full of soldiers sol-diers and by dawn of the next day 8000 men were on the other side of the river, a bridge 1300 feet long was at once begun and by noon columns of meu were marching across and the evening found an army along tho sides of Missionary Ridge and by night Sherman and his army were planted The next day ho was to make the attack, at-tack, aud he did, aud the battle of Chattanooga was fought. During the forenoon when Grant thought that he was being too heavily pressed, Baird's division was sent to SJierman's relief, but ho sent them back, saying he had all the troops he wanted. He held his position until long in tho afternoon, when Thomas broke the enemy's cen- position, which it is said he could have held forever against a direct attack, and on July 3d Sherman marched into Marietta. On the 7th of July the enemy were driven from their position on the C hat-tahooche hat-tahooche and fell back to Atlanta, General Gen-eral Hood assuming tbe command of the confederates. On July 17-20, the battle of 1 each Tree creek was fought and Hood was forced back toward tho city ofAtlanta. The stand of Hood was a desperate one and at times the hostile ranks almost commingled as in the hand-to-hand tights of old, they fought like demons not like men, and on the 22nd General McPherson was killed Following came the destruction of the Augusta railroad, Lovejoy's station, sta-tion, and on tho 2Hth Hood made a third and last desperate attempt to hold his forces, aud in tho battle that followed, fol-lowed, lost OHO!) men and retreated into Atlanta and tho memorable seige was begun which continued until September Sep-tember 1st, when the assault was made and Atlanta was evacuated and on the morning of the 2nd of September the great campaign was ended ami Sherman Sher-man entered this city. An historian speaking of this campaign says: "It is almost impossible to exaggerate the wouderful foresight, the skill and genius exhibited in this t his unparalleled campaign the foresight which prepared pre-pared for every contingency, not only in securing his long line of communication, communica-tion, but in providing forage and pr0. visions for his splendid army skill in rresuient Jonnson, out ne ueciineu, nun when Grant became president in 1 8ft) Sherman succeeded him as general and commanded in chief of the army. He retired in 1SS5. Reminiscent. It was a generous compliment paid deserving merit wheu General Grant said that his success was dependent on such generals as W.T. Sherman, James Birdseye McPhearson and John A. Logan. There were no jealousies existing ex-isting between these men, the cause of the country and its maintenance in the uaiou was a common cause for them all. And with a patriotism uuequalled in the history of nations they came out of the war, save the lamented McPhearson Mc-Phearson who foil before Atlanta, with their honor intact and with a love and devotion of the soldiers they led. that has no parallel in the history of any couutry. He needs no monument, no stately pyramid to tell posterity his fame. His deeds, his worthy deeds, will commend the excellency of his character so long as the history of the United States shall exist. And when arrayed with the other great soldiers who had passed before be-fore there will be no brighter names iu the galaxy of stars who have preceded pre-ceded him in the generations that have passed than the name William Teeumseh Teeum-seh Sherman. Will Alwaye be Remembered, Eighty years ago Thursday Abraham Lincoln was born. Today, two days after this anniversary, one of the great generals gen-erals who stood by him through this perilous administration, lays down the burden of life and joius his chiefs in the great beyond. As Lincoln once said: "We cannot escape history Wo of this congress aud administration will be remembered re-membered in spite of ourselves. No peisonal iiisiguiticence can spare ono or another of us. The tiery trial through : which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor too the latest generation." genera-tion." And thus, after seventy-one years' battle with the vicisitudes of life, surrounded sur-rounded with a halo of glory, with all the honors that could be heaped upon IConrtpueifou 6tapaiM.l- v : C. T. Al.KXANDRR. Senator Sherman at 8:25 sent the fol-"' fol-"' lowing message to his family in Washington: Wash-ington: General Sherman still lives ; and all the family is with him. Hois conscious and without pain. His as-- as-- '" tlimatic breathing is shorter and his j "strength weaker. At 8:30 this morning no hopes were 1 .' entertained for the recovery of Gen-I Gen-I 4- fral Sherman. Dr. Jnnewny, the con-aulting con-aulting phj-sician. left at this hour. ' "'i'licrc is a decided change for tho worse," said tho doctor, "iie will not live through the day. He is at present . very low. He may die at any moment. ' His strength is failing." ."What seems to be the trouble this - morning?" was asked. "Flrysipelas and uronrhito tubes," was the reply. After consulting, the doctors all declnre that General Sher-Ujft Sher-Ujft condition is hopeless. ' where he remained on duty during the Mexican war and rose to the rank of captain. In 1850 he was married to Ellen Kwing, the eldest daughter of his benefactor, to whom he had been attached at-tached from bis school boy days. Three years after, in 1853, becoming tired of a profession that consisted in a mere monotonous rouud of unvarying duties he resigned his commission and was made president of tho banking house of Lucas, Turner & Co., San Francisco. Here he remained for several sev-eral years. In 1800 he was offered the presidency of the Louisiana Military academy at Alexandria, with a salary of t"000 per year, which ho accepted and where he remained until the breakout break-out of the war, or rather until ho saw that war was inevitable. In January previous to the attack on Fort Sumptnr he sent in his resignation, in a remarkable remark-able letter which showed his wonderful forecast, which afterward caused him to be denounced as crazy but which made him the great general he was. His closing sentence in that letter was: "And, furthermore, as president of the board of supervisors, I beg you take toiiowou anu on tnat awful Sunday was the one rock that saved Grant at Shiloh as was evidenced by General Grant's utterance, "to his (Sherman's) individual efforts I am indebted lor the success of that battle." In the advance to Corinth Sherman's division was the first to enter tho deserted de-serted works of the enemy. When Memphis was captured he was placed in command of it. On December 20th he embarked with four picked divisions and a fleet of steamers on the Vicksburg campaign and on the 20th and 27th disembarked near the mouth of the Yazoo, and at onco ordered an advance on tbe city, ignorant of the fact that (.rant had been brought a bait at , Holly Springs. ter nno swept across Missionary ridge, when Sherman started in pursuit. This was kept up until the next day, when he turned eastward to break' up tho communication between Bragg and Longstreet. then before Knoxville. On the 30th upon entering Charleston he was handed a letter from Grant saying say-ing Burnside was completely invested at Knoxville, had but three days provisions pro-visions and to go to his relief. Ho had then marched four hundred miles, had fought a fierce battle and here was an order for i forced march of eighty miles, his men without rations and but a single coat or blanket per man, but he started and on November 5th, reached reach-ed the vicinity of Knoxville to find lhat Longstreet bad abandoned the' rie the handling oi ins troops m ..,rv seamed with water courses, broken into mountains and gorges and crossed only by tho most impracticable roads anil sometimes rendered impassible by protracted pro-tracted storms, the genius which enabled him to break away from the established rule of military scieuce, or rather introduce intro-duce a new principle into it and then crown with triumphant success a campaign cam-paign which scarcely anyone but himself him-self believed could bo carried out. For grandeur of design, depth and skill of combination it stands unrivalled in military mil-itary history. If the first Napoleon, by tho originality aud boldness of his designs, de-signs, his daring and successful departure depar-ture from old established formulas, and going back to the first principlesof war MM DEAD. K'onti tmed from first Pag'.l him, one of the great central figures of the martyred president' administration, administra-tion, General Sherman lays down the scepter and surrenders to death. Ills Personal A ppearance. In his personal appearance General Sherman was as striking a figure as he is in history. Tall and spore and willowy, wil-lowy, he could not have weighed more than 10 J pounds, despite his six feet of stature. His face was wrinkled and grizzly, with a closely cropped beard, topped olT by a forehead like that of Jupiter. Hut the lustre in those restless rest-less eyes, the youthful tire in those deep blue ' orbs, they were the chief attraction of tho hero of Atlanta. With them he could scorn or smile, command or beseech as he chose. Sherman was nervous and jerky in all his movements and a cigar between his lips had a hard time to keep alive. When in a happy mood a visitor to his office found a delightful man; when cross he was liable to explode ex-plode liko a powder magazine, with a terriHic crash. At home he was always the polished and courteous gentleman. He admired the girls and they reciprocated recipro-cated his feelings until for Home time the veteran in arms was known as a veteran kisser also. lie also loved the theater and he was a first nighter to the last. Whn his wife died it all but crushed him. Wht Sherman Thought in '411. As the old veteran and warrior General Gen-eral Sherman passes down into "the valley and the shadow" it recalls a little circumstance that happened in Salt Lake city about one year ago. In lH(i8 when a brother of the general, gen-eral, Mr. James Sherman, died at his home in Jes Moiues, Iowa, it became the sad duty of his son, now a resident of Salt Lake city, to tear up tho old home. In disposing of and packing the furniture an old trunk rilled with papers of no particular value and yet papers that should not be carlessly destroyed des-troyed was moved from place to place awaiting some more convenient time for its examination and the discussion of its contents. One day about a year ago and when Mr, lloyt Sherman jr., had been a resident of this city for some years, he started in to overhaul the old trunk. lown in one corner "was found a faded, time-worn letter written in 184(1 from Monteray California addressed address-ed to James Sherman, Lancaster, Ohio, and signed W. T. Sherman. With more than ordinary curiosity Receiver Sherman read the letter and was impressed im-pressed as others will be by the strange events that will happen in a man's lifetime. life-time. As stated the letter was written by W. T. Sherman, then a second lieutenant lieu-tenant in the regular army stationed at Monteray. After communicating with his brother in regard to some family matters, the, then, voting lieutenant goes on to write of his own fortunes. He speaks of his slow advancement in the army, complains of his ill luck in being stationed on coast defenses way out in California while his brothers in arms being in Mexico (this was during the Mexican w;ir) had some better opportunity to distinguish distin-guish themselves aud push on up the ladiV'T of military fame, and finally closes the letter with the sentence: "I consider my military career ended; shall resign my commission and return to the United States." California was then Mexican territory. In addition to the strangeness of This old letter (it took six months in those days for it to reach its destination) it opens up a Hood of thoughts, proving how dimly we can foresee the happening of mighty events in the future. How little this discouraged young oflicer could look ahead when he penued the sentence, ' I consider my military career ended." and see what was in store for him. Twenty years after that he marched "From Atlanta to the sea" at the head of a mightv and vie- torious army, accomplishing a military movement that astounded the world and rounded out the work that marked him one of tho greatest generals this age has produced. There are w hole chapters in that old letter, and perhaps per-haps not the least important one the lesion all young men might glean from it. At the time when his prns-spects prns-spects looked the darkest and the realization reali-zation of fame and glory seemed remotest re-motest fate had in store for this young man a mighty object to achieve, aud honors and triumphs to be showered on him by a grateful nation, seconded by a universe. A Christmas Oflaitne; In 1864. On Christmas day, 1 Ht;4. 'Jeneral Sherman sent the following telegram to President Lincoln: "Ire tu prevent jou. a CbtMtiiai Ittfi. , the City of fc.tvannah w.th ore hundred and fifty hesvy (runs, plen'v o' ammunition, and auout twenty tlve thouacd bales of cotton.' ' |