Identifier: lifeofwmtecumseh00injohn (find matches)
Title: Life of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman ..
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Johnson, Willis Fletcher, 1857-1931 Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis), 1830-1909
Subjects: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 Generals
Publisher: (Philadelphia) Edgewood Publishing Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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WELL TO THE SOUTH. ings and elsewhere throughout the city, and along thariver ships displayed every flag on earth except the Stars and Stripes. Everybody seemed to regard the change of government as complete and final, and believed that secession would be quietly acquiesced in by the nation, although men were steadily being enlisted and armed to defend the State. Amid such scenes, on February 25th,Sherman bade farewell to his friends, and set out for his old home at Lancaster. The Alexandria Seminary was broken up by the war.All the faculty and students joined the Rebel army excepting two professors and one student. Sherman met several of his former associates during the war, and for many years after the war maintained a friendly acquaintance with them. The Seminary was re-organized in 1865, but a few years later was totally destroyed by fire. Governor Moores plantation was laid waste during the war, and Shermanwas afterward of great service to him in regaining; possession of his property.
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HON. JOHN SHERMAN CHAPTER VI. THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR. The South Excited and Ready—The North Indifferent and Unpre-pared—Shermans Interview with Lincoln—His Plain Talk to hisBrother—Disgusted with the Politicians—A St. Louis StreetRailroad President—War Talk in St. Louis—A Clerkship De-clined—His Loyalty Doubted—Prophesying a Great Struggle—Bloodshed in St. Louis—Back to Washington—In Service at Last. It is not easy to imagine a greater difference between two sections of one nation than existed between the North and South in the early months of 1861. In both, the same great topic overshadowed all other interests ; and both en-joyed full information concerning it. Both, indeed, were deeply and equally concerned in the settlement of the great controversy that was already convulsing the nation. Yet the sentiment that prevailed in the one section varied aswidely from that in the other as though they were situated upon different planets. In Louisiana, before he left that S

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