Chapter XIV: William T. Sherman

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