Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1895 — “Old Tecump" Too Thin to Be Shot. [ARTICLE]

“Old Tecump" Too Thin to Be Shot.

Gen. Sherman and Gen.. Thomas were warm and Intimate friends. In their familiar intercourse they were to each other usually “Bill and “Tom,” after the free and easy fashion of schoolboys rather than like dignified and austere warriors. Near Resaca, Ga., during a sharp action Gen. Sherman went upon a railway embankment directly in the line of fire and stood carelessly amid the flying bullets, making his observations and giving his orders. Turning, he saw the head and shoulders of the portly and magnificently proportioned Thomas appear above the protection of the railway earthworks. Sherman, always careful for his friends rather than for himself, called out: “Pretty hot up here, Tom; better not come up.” “What are you doing up there yourself, then?” answered Thomas. “Oh, I just turn edgeways to ’eni,” said the tall, attenuated commander, with a grin, as he resumed his duties.