Show I 1 A I 1 I 1 2 arl j I 1 F aa t 41 F j V released nele asod by W western es t 0 r n union camp cavalcade SHADOWY figures in a cavalcade so of I 1 american history such are tile the men behind the of tile the great army anny canton cantonments ments scattered all over the united states where young americans are arc learning to be soldiers in order to defend their country when the need iccil arises today thousands of soldiers from tho the state which sent gent U S grant into the conflict ot of 1801 05 03 ate arc training nt at a gunnip camp 1 1 near Tul tullahoma lahoma tonn tenn which I 1 I 1 bears beard tho the name k of another american I 1 i military gon gen lus nathan bedford forrest forrect 01 11 la Is re I 1 I 1 p V I 1 by 1 most americans americana 1 jr f ns as tho the man whose recipe for victory was git N B r orrest fastest with tile montest men but more than one union general remembered him as a wizard of the saddle who repeatedly peat pt edly ou outwitted or outfought them whether he had th the montest mos test men or not desp despite 1 I te t th the fact that ho he was uneducated and had no formal military training his deeds won from a west pointer and another great lender leader this tribute tho the most remarkable ke man tho the civil war produced on either cither side the man who paid that ito to forrest was william tecumseh sherman for wa whom om camp sherman 1 near Chilli chillicothe 1 I 4 41 ohio Is named I 1 it was ohio which 1 1 I 8 sent 0 11 t VC u M POO A J sherman to we west st I 1 1 point where he I 1 learned the art 1 and science ot of making war years later hd u uttered t the ahral phrase 1 V t I 1 by which he Is F 0 best remembered W T sherman by most amerl ameri cans war Is heidi he knew that from experience in mexico in but more particularly from when he was ws grants right hand man in dealing tho the death blows to the confederacy ono one of lees commissioners of surrender at appomattox was a f tel el low virginian and a militant churchman william nelson pendleton 1809 1883 A graduate of west point in the class of 1831 he resigned two years later to teach mathematics in colleges in Pent pennsylvania isyl and delaware then he joined the protestant episcopal church was ordained a priest andaas and was serving as rector of a church in lexing ton va a at t the outbreak of the war between the states putting oft off his church robes to don the confederate gray he rose to the rank of brig adler adier general and chief of artillery of the army of northern virginia and at the end of the war returned to his pastoral duties in lexington A camp at virginia beach va bears his name virginia VIrgin la gave to the confederacy its fighting rector of tho the protestant episcopal church william I 1 nelson pendleton 4 q louisiana gave to the same cause its pr protestant otes episcopal I 1 bishop leonidas I 1 pout polk 1806 1864 0 born in raleigh 40 N C polk who wits was a cousin of 0 0 president james K r polk was graduated from west point in leonidas polk 1827 and served as a second lieutenant of artillery for five ave months before resigning from the army to study theology eleven years later he be became the missionary bishop of the southwest and in 1841 he was consecrated bishop of louisiana a position he held heid for 20 years at the outbreak of the war between the states he was commissioned a major general in the confederate army promoted to lieutenant general in 1802 ho he commanded M the department of alabama mississippi and eastern louisiana from january to may 1864 1804 the next month he was killed by a cannon ball nt at the battle of pine mountain ga because of his prominence in the religious educational and military life of louisiana it was as barly appropriate that one ona of the largest camps near leesville in that state should bear his name |