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Show f GENERAL SHERMAN - THE MAN By Maor General O. O. Howard. Vnlld Kuira Army, RMIred.l flen. Sliernmn 11 ml myself c:n h mm niandeil a liiliimle In the first battle"! Hull Hun. I l"i 'I henrd much nine' ('apt. rilH-rinuii. formerly of tho anil lery In the n-gulnr service, but bait wllh lilin only 11 passing aciii.intaiire while we were In the Kust. When lie first cunie to Wii-lilngton from IjjuiI-una IjjuiI-una he could not understand the ip-parent ip-parent npiiihy of the Wur dcpnrtu.nt. lie knew tliut seeesslon wits a reality and that a terrllile wur waa upon m In the Wi t niy first meeting siili Hheruiau was 11 1 ('ItattnmaiKa. In a large upper riMiiu of a private home, where, before his coming. Oen. (' rant had brought logt-tker a bevy of Wed-I Wed-I em generula, among them Tlioini. I I'almer, (lordon llranger and myself. We were talking in a social way wbru Hherniun. who had como up from Hrldgeport, Ala., a dlatanco of twetly miles frtim hla head of column, lo report re-port progress to (Irani, bunt la uptn ua. III. tall, ainewy figure, never fi.r a moment atlll. hla high head audita), aome brow, with a few wrinkles tt the comera ot hla eyes ar.d acnwTj-t forehead, hla keen. Iirlglil. aiarcli&. look and hla deep toned, mclodlii voli-e. presenti-tl a man onco Been neA er to bo forgotten. t After (Irani went east to command the armlei of the I'nlted Htatea. Slier man. having the three armies of the ' West rallitl the Mllltnry Division nl the Mississippi, which embraced all the troop from Cincinnati to Mobile was always moving forward with j ceaselesl activity. Our sprluu campaign of lNKt. hi these niovi-mcnis, under the untiring IndcfutUutilc Gcncrul. waa continui for llll day., during which we wen under tire of artillery nr muskctn every day except three. These thro) were iM-i iiHlotied by lien. Joe Johnitim the Confederalo commnnder, passim, suddenly and unexpectedly below tht Ktowah Rlvor. The nlglit tieforo Hherman enteren Atlanta in person he waa nenr m headquarters In the vicinity of Jooer liorn. til. He was tisi restltiss lo lleep About midnight he heard from the north "nound. of shellB exploding and other sound, like that of musketry. " He walked over lo a farm house and called the farmer out "to listen to the reverberations which came from Atlanta." At-lanta." The dlatanco waa twenty mile.. Sherman asked the farmer If he had lived there for any length of time. Ho answered that hn had. and that these sounds were like those of a battle. After these reverberations there H quiet till about dawn, when Hherman heard again a n-newnl of the etplo-.Ions. etplo-.Ions. He could not determine Id bis mind whether or not there wa. 1 r,si buttle. Not long after sunrise rumor. cam In that Hood had uhaiuloiu-ii hla pu,, lion nnd wns In retreat At lant K . the day wore on a dispatch came r,J (Sen rilofnin suiting ll,;it Hissi aill none nnd that the Twentieth rrpi marched Into the city As this news was his Imn.l Kh,r mounted his horse and ro.le b,,.L Atlanta. " Then he sent that nicm,)ru,, grum;" At Inula l ours and t,,, won." ' To the administration at Wathli Ion and to the p.-opl.. i large sif man had really burst from the iw Atlanta won'" ttas. 1,1, , , pinnilsu to America ami i n,e , tliat right unit Justice wouM souo! vail, and tliut the American c., would he restored Again on Dec. ;!. v;i Sh "ho had t 1 away In the hails,,"?; Ulna: the admiral of the tuny loc charge, t ame back m r Blocum aud myself, who hu, enbCl Savannah a day hefnre, J morning after llardee'H evacu.u the city. """",( Sheruiun waa delighted that were not obliged to make Hl ,u atlempt to carry Savannah by sault. A liege would hate taken n,T tlnie. and an as.ault. owing m lhf l' upprimclna, would hnvo been a very costly one lo our troops. o had hiinlly sisiki-ti to me before hn turned nwuy to prepare a dispatch for the President. Hore Is the message he sent ; "I beg to present to you as a Christ, inns present the city of Savannah, with one hundred nnd fifty heavy guna and plenty of uimimiiillun. nnd also about twenty nve hundred bales of cotton." Tho armies under Sherman had a very refreshing rest for a few duya. On January 1, lsfiTi, when I waa paying pay-ing my respect, to Oen. Prank Hluir at Lllair'a headiuarter, Sherman canto in In his u.unl brisk style, and. Bitting down beside mo with aome memoranda In hla hand, ho .aid quietly. quiet-ly. "Howard, 1 want you to transport your Army of tho Tennessee by water over to Beaufort, 8. C: march northward, north-ward, croBB lo tha main land and be at Poratallgo by tho luth of thla month. Can you do It?" I did not taka time to make more than a rough calculation, but aald! "Tho time la rather abort, but wo will bh there If It can ho done." ) Ho added that Blocum would march p tho Savannah, croaa at Slstnra' orry, aud bo at Kohcrtsvlllo about lia samo time that I should reach focatallgo. I may remark that tlx divisions of tho Army of tho Tennea-tve Tennea-tve wero at Pocntollgo at the required re-quired time. Tho other division went I w ith flonoral Sloctiiu, who waa very much delayed by the high water at Slstera' Kerry, ao tliut wo had lo wait several daya for the left wing to get Into position. Thua began the memorable inarch through the Carolina.. Aftor that dlf-(li dlf-(li u It march, with all Ha skirmishing, accidents and battle.. Sherman aent ua a congratulatory order which covered cov-ered tho whole Held of operatlona. It seenia now a little boastful, but it ex-pressea ex-pressea the simple truth; "So complete a suercas In tnllllury operatlona, extending uver half a continent, con-tinent, It an achievement that entitle! It to a placo in tho military history of tho world." At a Inter period he wrote: "I consider con-sider thit march at a meant to an end and not an eaaentlul act of war. Tho Important movo from Atlanta to Savannah 1b one step In the direction of Richmond. Wore I to ex-presa ex-presa my measure of the relative Importance Im-portance of tho march lo the sea and of that from Savannah northward. I would placo tho former 1 and tho latter lat-ter 10." My estimate of Oen. Sherman it high. Ills intellect furnished a mine rich In pearls, sparkling with diamonds, dia-monds, yet completed after Nature'a nwn order. He was ever at borne In science or commerce or art, and unver fulled to Interest a votary In hla own Held of reseurch. Hla perception wus like a flush of lltlit. Stand I1I111 11 m n a hilltop and Imluntly he tisik in the topography of the) country. As tin- hills anil vulleya aiwl ronds of (leorgia ilemoustruted, where he had once mentally grnsped the situation, tho mup uiwaya re mnlned photographed upon tho tablet of his memory. bad once leurned. He led his quartermaster quarter-master In Ihclr pinna and estimates for hit army. He waa quicker than his chief commissary In figuring Ilia rations for a month a supply - I venture a word regarding Sherman's Sher-man's moral and spiritual makeup, fruni a long and close observation of one who allowed me to be hia friend, I tin sure Sherman, while I kuew htiii. uever purposed 10 do a wrong act. Sudden impulses sometimes rloutV.I ,(, judgment. he alioininuted quackery aud pypocrV he had great admiration for '".."lieelally for Chrlttlan ""'" ,'i'y to family, loyalty to ,rl,,nu'to duV '" wiv,y Hbo,,t hlm' I In at'"' ""'"try 1,8 Quickly fading qut'"r' 'h'9 "" I" eristics Jnioim tho marked INowVork !!" un great touL |