Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1894 — Gen. Sherman and the Poet Stanton. [ARTICLE]

Gen. Sherman and the Poet Stanton.

Frank L. Stanton, the Georgia poet, preserves a queer memory of General Sherman. When the Union forces invaded Savannah the General placed a guard at the house of the poet’s father, who was a Northern man, and afterward visited him. While he was there the infantile poet came into the room, and Sherman, taking him upon his knee, said: “This is a fine fellow, but his head is a heap too big.” StaDton became a “devil” in a printing office and afterward a compositor before he began to produce the verses that have made him celebrated in the South.