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Title: Life of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman ..
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Johnson, Willis Fletcher, 1857-1931 Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis), 1830-1909
Subjects: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 Generals
Publisher: (Philadelphia) Edgewood Publishing Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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e dramatist will lovingly bearup the garments of his glory—keep them from soil withinthat Valhalla where Caesar and Alexander, Frederick andGustavus, live imperishably enshrined. Therein shall becherished the insignia and the characteristics of the mostnotable figure of modern or ancient soldiery. Again in future nights shall we see the pomp and gloryof Union making war—once again its gallant leader shallpass before the eyes of a curious posterity in the dramasimmortal keeping, and the gallant spirit whose influence inlife so often attended the presentment of Caesar and Antonyand Cassius and the Roman group shall, in death, minglewith their essence, tenderly restored by the dramatistswhom he inspired, by the actors whom he loved. Said Walter Q. Gresham, United States Judge: Ibelonged to General Shermans command when he enteredKentucky, at Louisville, in the summer of 61, since whichtime we have maintained an unbroken friendship. Besides being a man of great genius he was generous,
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HO W o £ qo o Mpq O o to o to O xx W 0 Kp., &. C P W JUDGE GRESHAAFS WORDS. 507 frank and confiding. No officer of high rank whom I metduring the war was more patient than General Shermanwith subordinates, so long as he believed that they weretrying to do their duty; and no officer was more mercilessin dealing with shirks, cowards and pretenders. In brilliancy of conception and boldness of execution,perhaps he had no equal on either side during the civilwar. Like other great and successful men he encounteredthe envy and jealousy of those less gifted and magnani-mous than himself. He was intensely patriotic and always willing to endurehardship and privation. His patriotism was of that intensekind that he would at any time have willingly sacrificedhis life for the cause he served so brilliantly and well. Hisgreat courage, generosity, frankness, and patriotism en-deared him to all the officers and men who served underhim, and in every State of the Union they are now mourn-ing his lo

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