Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day Being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators. Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher.

CHAPTER XIV.--WILLIAM T. SHERMAN.

Chapter 14126 wordsPublic domain

The Result of Eastern Blood and Western Developments--Lincoln, Grant, Chase and Sherman Specimens of it--The Sherman Family Character--Hon. Thomas Ewing adopts Sherman--Character of the Boy--He Enters West Point--His Peculiar Traits Showing thus Early--How he Treated his "Pleb"--His Early Military Service --His Appearance as First Lieutenant--Marries and Resigns-- Banker at San Francisco--Superintendent of Louisiana Military Academy--His Noble Letter Resigning the Superintendency--He Foresees a Great War--Cameron and Lincoln Think not--Sherman at Bull Run--He Goes to Kentucky--Wants Two Hundred Thousand Troops--The False Report of his Insanity--Joins Grant; His Services at Shiloh--Services in the Vicksburg Campaigns-- Endurance of Sherman and his Army--Sherman's estimate of Grant --How to live on the Enemy--Prepares to move from Atlanta-- The Great March--His Courtesy to the Colored People--His Foresight in War--Sherman on Office-Holding. 423