Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — Gen. Sherman and His Friend. [ARTICLE]

Gen. Sherman and His Friend.

Gen. Sir John Bisset, K. G. 8., an English soldier who has long enjoyed the Queen’s favor and who is known on this side of the water from his command of the troops in Canada, was an old-time friend of the late Gen. Sherman. Their intimate acquaintance grew out of a visit Gen. Sherman made to Gibraltar during Grant’s administration at the time Gen. Bisset was Governor of that stronghold. At the close of the visit the hero of the march to the sea gave his host an American rifle elegantly mounted in silver, and Sir John on his part for years thereafter sent Gen. Sherman a brace of English pheasants every winter, timing the departure of the game so that it should arrive in New York in season for old Tecumseh’s Christmas dinner. The last present of the kind reached New York while Sherman was on his death bed, too ill to eat the game, but he had the birds placed on his bed to be looked at and admired. The letter acknowledging the receipt of the game, written at the General’s direction, put a melancholy end to the long correspondence between the two friends. Gen. Bisset is now a handsome old gentleman with silvery hair but soldierly bearing, and is quartered at Folkestone.—New York World.