Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1891 — Sherman's Opinion of Cavalry. [ARTICLE]

Sherman's Opinion of Cavalry.

While at Ivenesaw General Sherman was very much perplexed by the incoherent and irreconcilable re- 1 girts from various quarters as to ood’s movement' ‘'l found him.’ - say a friend who was with him at the time, “little of an admirer of calvary he having on one occasion impetuously exclaimed: “1 have broken dowu all the cavalry of this army except Gerards’ division, and expect to soon finish that, when I shall be glad to be rid of them!’ Gen. Elliott indignantly repelled this reflection upon his arm of the service, and by his firotest drew from Sherman a graceul modification of what he had said. But Sherman never did like cavalry, and always maintained that ‘Smith’s Guerrillas' and other divisions of his army of the Tennessee could outmarch cavalry as well as out-fight them.

“I think a large part of Sherman's disposition to underrate the cavalry arm of the service, apart from his impulsive nature, grew out of the miserable fiasco made by General Sooy Smith in his raid in connection with Sherman's Meridian movement in February, 1864, wherein he so completely disappointed the expectations of Grant and Sherman, and, too, in a great degree destroyed the effects of the movement from Meridian. Nor did the failure of Stonemau’s expedition and his capture, with the inconclusive and expensive results of the McCook and Kilpatrick raids, also made in the Atlanta campaign, contribute much to improve Sherman's opinion of pavalry efficiency.”

Lady Dufferia is greatly interested in the women of India. Upon inquiry she found that they have never received any medical aid when they were suffering from physical ills. II they were unable to cure themselves by simple remedies they were left in the pangs of whatever disease had overtaken them, to die horrible deaths. Lady Dufferin cannot let this go on. So she is giving con certs at Grosvenor House for the raising of funds to send doctors to the women of India.

If Charley Ross is alive next November he will be old enough to vote