augurate peace on a permanent and enduring basis on every foot of American soil. Your marches, and sieges, and battles, in distance, duration, resolution and brilliancy of result, dim the luster of the world's past military achievements and will be the patriot's precedent in defense of liberty and right in all time to come. In obedience to your country's call you left your homes and families and volunteered in its defense. Victory has crowned your valor and secured the purpose of your patriot hearts and with the gratitude of your countrymen and the highest honors a great and free nation can accord, you will soon be permitted to return to your homes and families, conscious of having discharged the highest duties of American citizens. To achieve these glorious triumphs and to secure to yourselves and posterity the blessings of free institutions tens of thousands of your gallant comrades have fallen and sealed the priceless legacy with their lives. The graves of these a nation bedews with tears, honors their memories and will ever cherish and support their stricken families."

As to whether the Fifteenth or Seventeenth Corps, Army of the Tennessee, should march at the head of the column on the Grand Review, the day that Sherman's men had the center of the stage, became a matter of correspondence between high officials on account of the peculiar turn of affairs just previous to the event. Naturally this was a coveted position. In consequence of the selection of Gen. Howard for the head of the Freedmen's Bureau General Logan, who commanded the Fifteenth Corps, was slated as his successor, Under

these circumstances the Seventeenth Corps insisted that a division of honors could be made by allowing Gen. Blair's command to march as the leader in the parade. The matter drifted along until a couple of days or so before the date set for the review, when an order of march was issued by Gen. Howard, as the commander of the Army of the Tennessee, which gave the Fifteenth Corps the right of the line, and the day before the review Logan took command of the two corps as Howard's successor with this vexing incident swept aside. It is quite likely that some practical politics was done in this connection. Blair had marched with the Seventeenth Corps from Chattanooga to Atlanta and from Atlanta to Savannah but Logan left the army after the surrender of Atlanta and did not resume command of the Fifteenth Corps until after the occupation of Savannah. He was very much dissatisfied with General Sherman's selection of Howard as McPherson's successor, instead of himself, at Atlanta, and it was understood in the army that that was the reason of his going North on leave of absence after the occupation of Atlanta. However, he rendered the Union cause valiant service in the political campaign that fall.

The progress of General Sherman from the date of Johnston's surrender until Washington was reached was marked by the writing of letters to Halleck, to Grant, to Howard, to Logan, and others, declaring with all the vigor of his vigorous nature his resentment of the treatment his negotiations with Johnston had received from Halleck and Stanton. As General Grant

wrote him, he had cause for this resentment, and General Sherman was not one to conceal his emotions. Upon reaching Alexandria, Va., a few days in advance of his command, he wrote to General Rawlins, General Grant's chief of staff, at Washington. He said he had seen in the papers an order for a review of his army at the capital, but had not received the order in official form and added: "I am old-fashioned and prefer to receive orders through some other channel but if that be the new fashion, so be it. I will be all ready by Wednesday though in the rough. Troops have not been paid for eight or ten months and clothing may be bad but a better set of legs and arms cannot be displayed on this continent. Send me all the orders and letters you have for me and let some one newspaper know that the vandal, Sherman, is encamped near the canal bridge, half-way between Long Bridge and Alexandria, to the west of the road, where his friends, if any, can find him. Though in disgrace he is untamed and unconquered."

FRIENDSHIPS AND ANIMOSITIES.

THE likes and dislikes of men in high places are made conspicuous in these records. Secretary Stanton apparently had little confidence in any one excepting himself; General Grant had slight regard for either the War Secretary or General Halleck; General Sherman says in his Memoirs that he considered General Hooker a dangerous man on account of his desire to get into engagements on his own account when in the Western army and that he was glad when Hooker asked to be relieved, upon the appointment of General Howard to the command of the Army of the Tennessee after the death of General McPherson at Atlanta; General Logan was indignant when not chosen as McPherson's successor and obtained a leave of absence which prevented his going in command of the Fifteenth Corps on the march to the sea; General Pope was furious (and not without cause) when he was relieved of the command of the Army of Virginia after the second Bull Run battle and banished to the Northwest, with headquarters at St. Paul, and he wrote General Halleck a letter, September 30, 1862, which fairly blistered and in which he warned Halleck that McClellan and his coterie would ruin him, if possible, as the position of Halleck as the head of the army was a constant humiliation to McClellan; General Grant held General Butler in small esteem and his regard for General Buell, after the battle of Shiloh, was not of an ardent nature. General Halleck's contempt for Grant in the early stages of the war was a matter of public com

ment and was frequently displayed. General McClellan was the idol of the Eastern army and thousands of men have gone to their graves in the firm conviction that he was constantly hampered by the Washington authorities (which the records show was not the fact), jealous of his popularity, and that had he been properly supported by the government he would have soon. brought the war to a close. General Thomas had not an enemy in his command but officers and men held him in most affectionate regard. He is conspicuous in the official records for a steady attention to his duty, modest, quiet, patient under lack of appreciation of his great ability by the powers at Washington and, in the battle of Nashville, winding up his active career in a blaze of glory which will grow brighter as the years go by. Grant loved Sherman and McPherson and Sheridan and did all in his power to secure them opportunity for advancement, and this love was rewarded by a prompt response in the performance of duty and a confidence which never waned.

General Hooker was not pleased with his transfer to the Western army in the fall of 1863 and in December of that year he wrote to Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, a very frank letter on military and other subjects. Of the battle of Chattanooga, fought the month before, he gave an extended account. Sherman's attack, on the Union left, he said was a disaster as by his own successful assault on the right he was in position to have cut off the retreat of the Confederate forces, which operation was interfered with, by the action on the left. "Sherman is an active,