Show I-i I CJ Released by Western Newspaper Union Camp Cavalcade CavalcadeS S figures In a cavalcade of American history such history such are the men behind the names of the great army cantonments scattered all over the United States where young Americans are arc learning to be soldiers sol 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 training training training train train- ing at a camp near Tullahoma T Ten Tenn e n n. n w which h i c h bears the name 3 of another American American Amer Amer- 5 ican lean military genius gen gen- ius Nathan Bedl Bedford Bedford Bed Bed- l ford Forrest f 4 1877 1821 is is remembered remembered remembered re re- by most Americans as the man whose recipe for victory N. N B. B Forrest was Git Gi with the men but more than one Union general remembered him as asa asa asa a wizard of the saddle who repeatedly repeatedly re re- outwitted or outfought outfought outfought out out- 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 tribute the most remarkable man the Civil war produced on either side The man who paid that tribute to Forrest was William Villiam Tecumseh Sherman 1870 1891 for whom Camp Sherman near Chillicothe j t Ohio is named It was Ohio which s sent e n t C Gump CumP u m p Sherman to West WestPoint WestPoint y Point where he learned the art artand artand and science of making war r Years later he uttered uttered uttered ut ut- the phrase by which he is best remembered W. W T. T Sherman by most Ameri- Ameri cans cans War 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 right man in dealing the death blows to the Confederacy One of Lees Lee's commissioners of surrender at Appomattox was a fel fel- fel- fel Virginian low-Virginian and a militant churchman churchman churchman church church- man William Villiam Nelson Pendleton 1883 1809 A graduate of West Vest WestPoint WestPoint Point in the class of 1831 he resigned resigned resigned re re- re- re signed two years later to teach mathematics in colleges in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania and Delaware Then he joined the Protestant Episcopal church was ordained a priest and was serving serving serving ing as rector of a church in Lexington Lexing Lexing- ton Va at the outbreak of the War Var Between the States Putting off his church robes to don the Confederate ate gray he rose to the rank of brig brig- general 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 gave to the Confederacy its Fighting Rector of the Protestant Protestant Protestant Prot Prot- Episcopal church church- William Villiam WilliamJ J 4 Nelson Pendleton Pendle- Pendle ton Louisiana gave to the same Ltd cause its Protestant Protestant Protestant Protes Protes- tant Episcopal bishop bishop- Leonidas a P Polk lk 1864 1806 2 Born in Raleigh N. N C C. C Polk who was a cousin of President James K Polk was graduated from West Point in Leonidas Polk Pom Pomas 1827 and served as a n second lieutenant of artillery for five months before resigning from the army to study theology Eleven years later he became the missionary bishop of the Southwest and in 1841 he was consecrated bishop bishop bishop bish bish- op of Louisiana a position he held for 20 years At the outbreak of the War Between the States he was commissioned commissioned commissioned com com- a major-general major in the Confederate army Promoted to lieutenant-general lieutenant in 1862 he commanded commanded commanded com com- the Department of Alabama Mississippi and Eastern Louisiana from January to May 1864 The next month he was killed by a cannon cannonball cannonball cannonball ball at the Battle of Pine Mountain Ga Because of his prominence in inthe inthe inthe the religious educational and military military military mili mili- tary life of Louisiana it was singularly singularly singularly appropriate that one of the largest camps near Leesville in that state should bear his name |