CONTENTS. BEFORE THE WAR.- GENERAL SHERMAN'S ANCESTRY AND BIRTH.-CAREER AT WEST POINT. - SERVICE IN FLORIDA — AT MOBILE-IN CHARLESTON HAR- BOR-IN GEORGIA-IN NORTH CAROLINA-IN CALIFORNIA. - HIS MARRIAGE. SERVICE AT ST. LOUIS.-HIS RESIGNATION. —IN CALIFORNIA. - PRESIDENT IN COMMAND AT MEMPHIS. — ORGANIZA- TION OF ARMY CORPS.- PREPARATION FOR THE MOVEMENT ON VICKSBURG 71 THE ATTEMPT ON VICKSBURG. SHERMAN'S ORDERS.-THE MOVEMENT BE- GUN. -THE NAVY CO-OPERATING. — THE ATTACK ON CHICKASAW BLUFFS. · 91 THE SIEGE AND FALL OF VICKSBURG. - PREPARATION FOR THE SIEGE.— UP THE YAZoo.-Grand GULF.-JACKSON.-VICKSBURG.—THE Surrender 98 TO CHATTANOOGA. - BATTLE OF MISSIONARY RIDGE. - THE MARCH TO CHATTANOOGA. -CHANGE OF COMMANDERS.— LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN. -MIS- THE MERIDIAN RAID. —A NEW COMMAND.- POLK'S DEFEAT.-BANKS'S EXPE- DITION TO RED RIVER. - GRANT'S LETTER TO SHERMAN UPON HIS PROMOTION 159 THE ARMY OF THE CENTRE.-ITS ORGANIZATION AND POSITION.-SKETCH OF GENERALS THOMAS AND MCPHERSON. — ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY. 169 BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS.-TUNNEL HILL.-BUZZARD'S-Roost GAP.- RESACA. - THE COLORS POINT TO THE SOUTH.-SKETCHES OF GENERALS HOWARD, BLAIR, SLOCUM, KILPATRICK, AND OSTERHAUS.-DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTA 256 THE REJECTED AGREEMENT.-SECRETARY STANTON'S NINE REASONS.-THE VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE. - PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S POLICY.-THE TRUCE.-ITS AT HOME.-SHERMAN'S SPEECHES AT LANCASTER-CINCINNATI-ST. LOUIS 404 CONCLUSION. SHERMAN'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND CHARACTERISTICS.- REGARD FOR THE DISABLED. - PROMPTNESS AND DECISION.-RELIGIOUS CON- VICTIONS. — ANDERSONVILLE PRISONERS.-HIS VIEWS ON RECONSTRUCTION PORTRAITS.—MAJOR-GENERAL WM. T. SHERMAN - MAJOR-GENERAL O. O. HOWARD - MAJOR- MAPS. THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN, AND SIEGE OF ATLANTA FROM ATLANTA TO THE SEA- SHERMAN AND HIS CAMPAIGNS. CHAPTER I. BEFORE THE WAR. WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN was born in Lancaster, Ohio, on the 8th of February, 1820. The branch of the Sherman family to which he belongs is descended from the Honorable Samuel Sherman, of Dedham, in the County of Essex, England, who came to Massachusetts in the year 1634, in company with his brother, the Reverend John Sherman, and their cousin, Captain John Sherman. The two latter settled at Milford, in Connecticut, and became the founders of useful and influential families. Roger Sherman was a descendant of the captain's. Samuel Sherman, after residing for a time at Wethersfield, Connecticut, removed to Stamford, and finally to Stratford, in the same State. His son, Deacon John Sherman, went early in life to Woodbury, Connecticut, where the family remained until the death, in 1815, of his great grandson, Taylor Sherman, for many years judge of one of the courts of his native State. His widow removed, with her children, to what is now the town of Lancaster, in Fairfield County, in the State of Ohio. Charles Robert Sherman, the son of Taylor Sherman, and the father of the subject of this sketch, was born on the 26th of September, 1788. He was an accomplished lawyer, very successful as an advocate, and from 1823 to 1829, when he died of cholera, was one of the judges of the |