| Show the brave wife of general Sher sherman man mau I 1 ha have v a a case in point as to tile the manner in which he was frequently imposed upon of cour coure course o the citizens of louisville recollect that when shier rhier sherman Bherman man mau was iu in commit commend rid of that department he was accused of insanity he could not re receive cne awo i I 1 any answer from general mcclellan to his hla dispatches mrs sherman came to Washing washington wn arid and called upon the president she title stated that for more than twelve yearn earh ears she had been general shermans Sher mans wife and if any one was wms capable of judging as to the soundness of his mind it would be her ber herself shir seir she declared clarea that there had never been the slightest indication or of iii iti insanity anity though they might drive him to it that if he were insane she bhe would be the first to delre desire to withdraw him from the public gaze but hut so BO far from desiring that nhe she the fhe ak a k ed that he be entrusted with anything that wa difficult or that was becoming his rank mr lini reply t to this was that general sherman a dispatches were not those ot a sane baue man 51 mrs rg riler mau man wa astounded arter afier leavi leaving 1119 ilig the pre president slie nite went to the tile war department and requested a cp of her 4 aib alb patches dispatches ater after obtaining hese these I 1 she achl achi abam n called upon the Pes ilent when mr lincoln read thoe those papers papery lie fald salu that they were not at t all what had been represented to him this wm win the kind of work thil thul war was bein done in the war department t where we needed every g glod iod tod meer officer and by the light of to day we e cm tio ito hee see how few they ibey were whre as valuable als aks sih rih sherman erman ermac and yet the country would have hae lost his services servIce 4 if his bis wine wife had not been the brave determined woman she Is mr chame chase took a bold stand at thit lime time in saving sherman and I 1 heard gene ral Sher manat his hii daughter daughters wed ding say the most graceful aud and felicitous thing things to mrs spra sprague kt personally r H nally and in allu ion lon teter to her nather lather h r knowing that kind klud recollections of him would be the sweeter sweetest theme or hla hia daughters ears cor our courter journel |
