Gardner, we believe. The other partners were busy, and Sherman, with his authorities and the case all mapped out, proceeded to court. He returned in a rage two hours after. Something had gone wrong. He had been pettifogged out of the case by a sharp petty attorney opposed to him, in a way which was disgusting to his intellect and his convictions. His amour propre was hurt, and he swore that he would have nothing more to do with the law in this State. That afternoon, the business was closed, partnership dissolved, and in a very short time Sherman was on his way to a more congenial clime and occupation. The war found him in Louisiana, and, in despite of his strong proslavery opinions, found him an intense and devoted patriot. We met him here, and, though but slightly acquainted, have remembered ever since the impression he left on our mind. He sphered himself to our perception as the most remarkable intellectual embodiment of force it had been our fortune to encounter. Once since we met him, in our lines before Corinth, where he had command of the right wing of Halleck's magnificent army. The same impression was given then, combined with the idea of nervous vitality, angularity of character, and intense devotion to what he had in hand. Sherman is truly an idealist, even to fanaticism, though, in all probability, if told so, he would retort back an unbelieving sarcasm. He outlines himself to our memory as a man of middle stature, nervous, muscular frame, with a long, keen head, sharply defined from the forehead, and back of the ears. His eyes have an introverted look, but full of smouldering fire. His mouth is sharp and well cut; the lower part of the face powerful, though not heavy. His complexion fair, hair and beard of a sandy red, straight, short, and strong. His temperament is nervous- sanguine, and he is full of crochets and prejudices, which, however, never stand in the way of practical results. The idea, or rather object, which rules him, for the time, overrides everything else. Round the mouth, we remember a gleam of saturnine humor, and in the eyes a look of kindness, which would attract to him the caresses of children. Such are the impressions left on our mind by the only military educated member of this legal quartette-all of whom have held commissions as generals in the army. Hugh Ewing went early into the war, as Colonel of an Ohio regiment, to which State he had returned before the rebellion. He was soon promoted to a Brigadiership. He has served honorably through most of the campaigns in the central south. He has been wounded more than once. Dan Mc Cook's name has passed into history, as one of the most gallant young lives offered as a sacrifice to secure American nationality. He was, we think, the second captain mustered in from this State, in the veteran First Kansas, as early as the beginning of May, 1861. He was all through its famous Missouri campaign, under Lyon. His friends here remember the jubilant expression to which his ambition gave vent, when he first left for the field: "Here's for a colonel's epaulettes, or a soldier's grave." He knew not how prophetic was the utterance. He won the first, and more, and the latter is now his lasting inheritance of fame. After the regiment returned to Kansas, in the Fall of 1861, Captain Dan was placed on staff duty, we believe, with one of the Generals Mc Cook, then in Kentucky. Soon after, he was prostrated with sickness. On recovering, he raised, and commanded the Fifty-Second Ohio. For a long time he was acting Brigadier, participating through all Rosecrans' famous campaigns in Tennessee. He was wounded, and after promotion as Brigadier, returned to Ohio sick, where he died. "As man may, he fought his fight, Proved his truth by his endeavor; Let him sleep in solemn night, The remaining member of the firm, General Thomas Ewing, Jr., is too well known to need particularizing by us. The war found him our Chief Justice. In the summer of 1862, he resigned, raised the Eleventh Regiment, became its colonel, and participated in all the engagements of the Army of the Frontier, during the following Fall and Winter. He was afterward promoted to a Brigadiership, and has since been in command of the Western Missouri and Kansas District. He has, for over a year, been in command of the District of Southeast Missouri, with St. Louis as headquarters, where he is popular. His undoubted administrative ability comes into play there. The defense of, and retreat from, Pilot Knob, during the late campaign, reflect great credit upon his skill and courage as a soldier. Taking it all in all, the legal military firm, of which we have been giving these random notes, is one of the most remarkable proofs of the versatility and adaptability of the American character, that the war, fruitful as it has been in examples, has yet produced. CHAPTER II. GENERAL SHERMAN AND THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN. THE POLITICIANS' BATTLE-GEN. SCOTT— -STRENGTH OF AT AT PADUCAH Before giving the history of the part taken by Colonel, now General Sherman, in the battle of Bull Run, it may be necessary to make a few preliminary statements, that we may have a clearer understanding of what that gallant officer did, in that most remarkable battle of the Rebellion. That battle ought to be called the "politicians' battle." Politicians most clamorously urged the President and the Cabinet, and pressed General Scott to attack the enemy, then in a position of his own choosing. The incessant cry of these men, in |