Show I I i C r rc c r Released by Western Newspaper Union Camp Cavalcade CavalcadeS figures In a cavalcade S of American history such history such are the men behind the names of the tho scattered cantonments great army all over the United States where young Americans are learning to be soldiers in order to defend their country when the need arises Today thousands of soldiers from the state which sent U. U S. S Grant into the conflict of 65 1861 are train train- training training ing at a camp t near Tullahoma s T Tenn e n n. n which t bears the name 1 of another Amer Amer- American Scan ican military gen gen- ius Sus Nathan Bed Bed- Bedford Bedford ford Forrest 1877 1821 is re- re reS S by most Americans as the man whose recipe for victory was Git than NB N.B. N N. B. B Forrest with the men but more than one Union general remembered him as asa asa a wizard of the saddle who v re repeatedly re- re repeatedly outwitted or outfought out out- outfought fought them whether he had the men or not Despite the fact that he was uneducated and had no formal military training his deeds won from a West Pointer and another great leader this triple tribute the most remarkable man the Civil war produced on either side sid The man who paid that tribute to Forrest was William WitHam Tecumseh Sherman Sherma n 1870 1370 r 1831 for whom m E Camp Sherman Chillicothe FV S near nc r i 1 Ohio is named It was Ohio which i. i 1 t sent Cutup Cump C u m p w M n J 4 r t I Sherman to West Vest WestPoint fr 1 Point where he P l learned the art artand F t 7 and science of v making war a aYears Years later he ut uttered t r the t e phrase warI I by which he is w best remembered II W. W T. T Sherman by most Amen Ameri Americans cans War cans War is hell He knew that from experience in in Mexico in 1846 47 but more particularly from 1861 65 when he was Grants Grant's right hand man in dealing the death blow the Confederacy J One of ol Lee Lees if co m ers surrender at Ss' Ss a fel leI 1 anda and d a l i ant church church- churchman church church- man neb un 1883 1809 A j l. l bf f West P kit m tn In the class clas c as eft 31 here he re- re reI I sinned two years years' ye rs' rs Jak teach te h in in In Inc colleges c In Pennsyl Pennsylvania Penns l vania vanla and Delaware Then he joined i iI I the Protestant Episcopal church i was ordained a priest and was serving serving ling ing as rector of ot a church in ton ten Va at the thc outbreak of ot the War ar N I Between the States Putting off his I church robes to don the Confederate ate gray he rose to the rank of g br f l general adier-general and chief of ot artillery w I of ot the Army of ot Northern Virginia f and at the end of ot the war returned f to his pastoral duties in Lexington 4 A camp at Virginia Beach Va bears his bis his name Virginia gave to the Confederacy Its Fighting Rector of the Pro Pros j ice Episcopal j Episcopal J church church- William p Nelson Pendle Pendle- Pendleton tl t ton Louisiana gave to the sarre sane t 2 i it d. d cause its Protes t tant font Episcopal h bishop bishop- Leonidas W l Polk 1864 1806 w. w Born in Raleigh N. N C. C Polk who s fN was a cousin of ol e President James Janes K Polk was wasL L graduated from West Nest Point la fa Leonidas Polk 1827 and served as a second lieutenant of ot artillery artill ry for tor five months before r d. from the army to study urology O Eleven years later he becane the missionary bishop of ot the Southwest and in 1841 he was vas d bish bish- bishop bishop bishop op of Louisiana a position e held for 20 years At the outbreak of ot t tte War Between the States he com com- commissioned a major-general major in n the Confederate army Promo d to lieutenant general lieutenant general in 1862 h cord corf- can can- the Department of ot Ala ama arna Mississippi and Eastern Lo from January to May 1864 Tb next nest month he was killed by a J piton fannon f ball ban at the Battle of Pine Mo taro tain Ga Because Because of ot his in the religious educational an and j mili military military tary tai life We of t Louisiana L it was jingu- jingu in appropriate that one the largest camps near near- In that state should bear his nan na |