CHAPTER XXXIV.

SHERMAN'S OWN WORDS.

Speech at a Clover Club Dinner--A Famous New England Society Dinner--Teaching Geography in Georgia--Speaking for the United States--Old Times in Ohio--At a Grand Army National Encampment--Why he did not March to Augusta--One of his Last Letters--A Story of Grant--Congratulations to President Harrison 587

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

GENERAL WM. TECUMSEH SHERMAN (frontispiece), Steel

MRS. GENERAL SHERMAN, 20

SHERMAN'S BIRTHPLACE, 37

SHERMAN ENTERING U. S. SENATE, 56

HON. JOHN SHERMAN, 73

GENERAL JOHN C. FREMONT, 91

GENERAL THOMAS' BIVOUAC (after the first day's battle), 109

MAJOR-GENERAL O. O. HOWARD, 128

MAJOR-GENERAL SLOCUM, 145

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SHERIDAN, 164

MAJOR-GENERAL BUTTERFIELD, 181

GENERAL JOHN A. LOGAN, 200

GRANT'S MARCH UPON VICKSBURG, 217

ADMIRAL D. D. PORTER, 236

BATTLE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, 253

SPRAGUE'S BRIGADE PROTECTING SHERMAN'S WAGON TRAIN AT DECATUR, 272

CAPTURING THEIR HEADQUARTERS, 289

MAJOR-GENERAL SCHOFIELD, 308

MAP OF ATLANTA CAMPAIGN, 317

DEATH OF GENERAL J. B. McPHERSON, 325

BATTLE OF ATLANTA, 344

BATTLE OF ATLANTA--THE CONTEST OF BALD HILL, 361

A BIVOUAC AMONG THE GEORGIA PINES, 380

MAP OF ATLANTA TO SAVANNAH, 388

SHERMAN SENDING HIS LAST TELEGRAM BEFORE CUTTING THE WIRES, 397

CAPTURING THE FLAG, 416

CAMP OF THE SECOND MASSACHUSETTS--CITY HALL, ATLANTA, 433

BATTLE OF EZRA CHURCH, JULY 28TH, 1864, 452

THE ROAD FROM McPHERSONVILLE, 469

ARMY AND CORPS COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE, 488

HEAD OF THE PROCESSION COMING DOWN BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY, 505

THE CATAFALQUE PASSING FIFTY-SEVENTH STREET AND BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY, 524

THE RIDERLESS HORSE, 541

GENERAL LEW. WALLACE, 559

SHERMAN'S SENTIMENTS APPROVED, 578