Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1891 — SHERMAN’S MARCH O’ER. [ARTICLE]

SHERMAN’S MARCH O’ER.

DEATH AT LAST CONQUERS THE CONQUEROR. After a Heroic Struggle with the Last Great Enemy of Mankind, One of the Foremost Figures of the War Joins the Innumerable Caravan. [New York dispatch.] Gen. W. T Sherman.one of the greatest heroes of the late war, has completed his last inarch and passed though the lines. His death, which occurred in New York City, was peaceful and painless. So quietly did the soul of the gallant warrior' leave thembody' the watching friends were scarcely aware of its departure. In accordance with an oft expressed wish of the General, the remains will be interred in St.,Louis. William Tecumseh Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio, Feb. 8, .1820. He was the sixth child, and was adopted by Thomas Ewing, and attended school in Lancaster uu|il 1836, when he entered the military academy at West Point, graduating from that institution in 1840, standing sixth in a»»class of forty-two members He received his first commisa Second Lieutenant in theTihird Artillery, July J, 1840, and was sent with that command to Florida On Nov. 30, 1841, he was promoted to a First Lieutenancy. In 1843, on his return from a short leave, he began the study of law, not to make it a profession, but to render himself a more intelligent soldier. In 1846, when the Mexican war broke out, he was sent with troops to California, where he acted as adjutant general to Gen. Stephen W. Kearney. On his return, in 1850, he was married to Ellen Boyle Ewing at Washington, her father, his old friend, then being Secretary of the Interior. He wa’s appointed a captain in the commissary department Sept. 21, 1850. but resigned in 1853 and was appointed manager of a bank in San Francisco, but subsequently took up h’s residence in New York as agent lor a St. Louis firm. In 1858-59 he practiced law in Leavenworth, Kan., and the following year became Supertendent of the Louisiana state Military Academy. It was while he was acting in this connection that Louisiana seceded from the Union, and General Sherman promptly resigned his office. On May 13, 1861, he was commissioned Colonel of the Thirteenth Infantry, with instructions to report to General Scott at Washington. Sherman was put in command of a brigade in Tyler’s division. On Aug. 3. 1861, he was made a4<rigadier General of Volunteers, and was sent to be. second in command to General Anderson, in Kentucky. On account of broken health. General Anderson was relieved from the command. and Gen. t Sherman succeeded him on Oct. 17. Just after the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson, in 1862, Gen. Sherman was assigned to the Army of the Tennessee. In the great battle of Shiloh, Sherman’s division served as a sort of pivot. He was wounded in the hand during the fight, but refused to leave -the field General Halleck declared that “Sherman saved the fortunes of the day bn the cth. and contributed largely to the glorious victory of the 7th.” General Sherman was always conspicuous for judgment and dasii. He was made a Major General next, and on July 15 he was ordered' to Memphis. On account of brilliant services in the Vicksburg campaign he was appointed a Brigadier General. After General Grant had been made Lieutenant General he assigned General Sherman to the command of the Military Division of the Mississippi. On Feb. 19, 1864, General Sherman received the thanks of Congress for his services in the Chattanooga campaign. On April 10 he received his orders to move against Atlanta. His forces then consisted of 99,000 men, wfth 254 guns, while the Confederate army, under Johnston, was composed of 62.000 men. Sherman repeatedly attacked the •enemy, who gradually fell back. On July 17 Sherman began the direct attack on Atlanta. In a number of severe sorties the Union forces were victorious, and on Sept. 1 the enemy evacuated the place. Sherman immediately moved forward to the works that covesed Savannah, and soon captured that city. His army had marched 300 miles in twenty-four days through tho heart of Georgia, and had achieved ■ a splendid victory. Sherman was made a Major Genera’, and received the thanks of Congress for his triumphal march. Upon the appointment of Grant as ' General of the Army, Sherman was pro- ' moted to be Lieutenant General, and I when Grant became President of the United States, March 4, 1869, Sherman succeeded him as General, with headquarters at Washington. At his own request, and in order to make Sheridan General-in-chief he was placed on the list, with full pay and emoluments/ on Feb. 8, 1884. For a while after that the General resided in St. Louis, but some years ago moved to New York, where he became a great favorite. There was hardly a night»that he did not Attend some dinner, entertainment, or theater party, and he became well known as an eloquent afterdinner speaker. The General lived very quietly with his family at his house in Seventy-first street, near Central Park. The General’s wife died a few years age, and two of his daughters are married. One of his sons is a Jesuit priest. Two unmarried daughters and a son, a lawyer, comprise the General’s household in this city.

The garbage scow in the Seattle harbor attracts vast “ multitudes of sea gulls. Whenever the boat is towed out from 1,500 to 2,000 follow it to its destination, and the men employed on it claim that they scarcely have room to work, as the gulls cluster around them in swarms, all fighting one another to get on the scow and select their food. A substitute for emery in grinding has been found in crushed steel. Highly tempered steel is heated and plunged into water. This renders‘it so brittle that it can be pulverized, and in this shape it does the work of emery better than the genuine a: tide. Breeding Chinese pheasants has become a growing and profitable industry in Oregon. They sell readily for $lO a pair. A large number of farmers are making a nice sum from the business, a perfectly legitimate one. A mother shot her son, 19 years old, at Crab Orchard, Ky., because he refused to stop tossing a little child in his arms. Then she tried to drown herself. Merit may not always win, but it can stand it if it doesn’t.