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Show SENT SHERMAN TO THE SEA. (Glengarry (Mich.) Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean.) 'Twas not a message to Garcia, but a message fraught with greater import that Charles May of this village carried car-ried while serving during the civil war. It was the message from Grant to Sherman ordering him to start on the march from Atlanta to the sea. The name of Mr. May does not appear ap-pear in the historical account of the sending of that m;s3age, but he possesses pos-sesses a Barnes school history of the war, in which is a picture to which he proudly points. It is a picture of General Gen-eral Grant sitting upon a log and writing writ-ing the memorable, message. By his side stands a young orderly holding his horse and waiting for the message. "That's me," says Mr. May, as he points to the picture. Mr. May was born in Waverly, N. Y.. in 1843. He lived in Pennsylvania from 1853 until the breaking out of the war, then he enlisted-in the First Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania cavalry for three years, and, at the end of his term of service, he re-enllsted re-enllsted for three years. It was after his re-enlistment that he was detailed as an orderlj- to Grant and carried the famous message. Mr. May's regiment and another regiment reg-iment were. so badly cut up by the hard fighting through which they went that the remnants of the two were consolidated con-solidated and called the First Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania Provisional, and it was from this regiment that he received his honorable discharge. Mr. May came to Michigan in 1866. He served on the police force at Muskegon Mus-kegon for three years. He was deputy depu-ty sheriff at Newaygo for two years. For a year he was marshal of the village vil-lage of Manton. In the village of Sherman he was marshal two years and he is still in the ring. He is now engaged in the saloon business in this village. |