waved over those old forts when the nation's life began, floats above them again, the earnest of a nobler life, dawning even now. The flag that Greene loved, and which Pulaski looked upon while dying, and which floated over Tatnall's ships, Sherman's men, from their far off Western homes, have borne across a continent and set it up again on the fields of its old renown. It shall wave there long after traitors have received their merited reward of infamy. BONAVENTURE. This cemetery, situated near Fort Jackson, is a most wonderful spot. Originally it was a private estate, laid out with great taste, and well stocked with shade trees and ornamental shrubs. These trees now form shaded avenues miles in extent, and hung, as they are, so thickly with the long gray moss, they look as if "Eternity had snowed its years upon them, And the white winter of their age had come." Yet through these marks of age the greenness of perpetual spring smiles constantly, even as the glory of the Resurrection outshines the dimness of the graves of the sleepers below. There are walks here that remind one of the Bosphorus, with its cypress and its gloom. There are bright groves of orange and bay, brilliant flowers and birds of golden plumage and sweet song. The far-off murmur of the sea is ever faintly heard; birds do not cease to sing or flowers to bloom. Here nature never dies, and were it not for man's decay we might almost imagine that our footsteps were leading us over the beautiful walks of Paradise. GENERAL SHERMAN AND THE BRITISH CONSUL AT SAVANNAH. [Washington Correspondence of the New York Herald.] On the arrival of General Sherman at Savannah, he saw a large number of British flags displayed from buildings, and had a curiosity to know how many British consuls there were there. He soon ascertained that these flags were on buildings where cotton had been stored away, and at once ordered it to be seized. (Soon after that, while the general was busily engaged at his head-quarters/a pompous gentleman walked in, apparently in great haste, and inquired if he was General Sherman ? Having received an affirmative reply, the pompous gentleman remarked, "that when he left his residence the United States troops were engaged in removing his cotton from it, where it was protected by the British flag." "Stop, sir," said General Sherman; "not your cotton, sir, but my cotton; my cotton in the name of the United States Government, sir. I have noticed," continued General Sherman, "a great many British flags here, all protecting cotton. I have seized it all in the name of my Government." "But sir," said the consul, indignantly, "there is scarcely any cotton in Savannah that does not belong to me." "There is not a pound of cotton here, sir, that does not belong to me, for the United States," responded Sherman. 66 "Well, sir," said the consul, swelling himself up with the dignity of his office, and reddening in his face, "my Government shall hear of this. I shall report your conduct to my Government, sir.” "Ah! pray, who are you, sir?" said the general. "Consul to Her British Majesty, sir." "Oh! indeed!" responded the general. "I hope you will report me to your Government. You will please say to your Government, for me, that I have been fighting the English Government all the way from the Ohio River to Vicksburg, and thence t this point. At every step I have encountered British arms, and British goods of every description, at every step, sir. I have met them, sir, in all shapes; and now, sir, I find you claiming all the cotton, sir. I intend to call upon my Government to order me to Nassau at once." "What do you propose to do there?" asked the Consul, somewhat taken aback. "I would," replied the general, "take with me a quantity of picks and shovels, and throw that cursed sand hill into the sea, sir. You may tell your Government that, sir. I would shovel it into the sea, sir; and then I would pay for it, sir—if necessary. Good day, sir." It is needless to add that General Sherman was not again troubled with the officious representative of Her Majesty's Government. CHAPTER XIV. SHERMAN'S CAMPAIGN IN THE CAROLINAS. MOVEMENTS THE CONSUMMATION OF THE GREAT PLAN STRUCTION OF THE RAILROAD- OFFICIAL REPORT OF IN CIDENTS. This campaign may be called the climax of this colossal war. Heretofore we have spoken of the campaigns from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and from Atlanta to Savannah. The truth is, they were but parts of one great whole. The movement of Sherman, which commenced on the 1st day of May, 1864, and ended with the surrender of Johnston's army and all the Confederate forces from the Chattahoochee to the Potomac on the 26th day of April, 1865, extending through almost an entire year, was but one campaign; was but the carrying out of |