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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 1: early recollections of California. 1846-1848. (search)
. Without committing myself to that project, I wrote to the Adjutant-General, R. Jones, at Washington, D. C., asking him to consider me as an applicant for any active service, and saying that I wouldentleman for Field's signature, when he should get there, to be forwarded to the Department at Washington, and the duplicates to me. These I did not receive for more than a year. I remember that I go same gentleman who has since been a member of Congress, who is married to Miss Kennedy, of Washington City, and now lives in princely style at Chico, California. He explained that he was a surveyong our route of travel, I advised the colonel to allow Captain Folsom to purchase and send to Washington a large sample of the commercial gold in general use, and to pay for the same out of the moneyaphed to the War Department his arrival; but so many delays had occurred that he did not reach Washington in time to have the matter embraced in the President's regular message of 1848, as we had calc
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 2: early recollections of California--(continued). 1849-1850. (search)
ved by General Riley some time in April, and left California in the steamer of the 1st May for Washington and St. Louis, where he died of cholera in the summer of 1850, and his body is buried in Belle million dollars! At all events, he was a splendid — looking fellow, and brought with him from Washington a letter to General Smith and another for Commodore Jones, to the effect that he was a man of enlarged experience in beef; that the authorities in Washington knew that there existed in California large herds of cattle, which were only valuable for their hides and tallow; that it was of great i. After some four or five days spent in New York, I was, by an order of General Scott, sent to Washington, to lay before the Secretary of War (Crawford, of Georgia) the dispatches which I had brought from California. On reaching Washington, I found that Mr. Ewing was Secretary of the Interior, and I at once became a member of his family. The family occupied the house of Mr. Blair, on Pennsylvani
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 3: Missouri, Louisiana, and California. 1850-1855. (search)
irst to General Scott in New York City, and afterward to the Secretary of War (Crawford) in Washington City, I applied for and received a leave of absence for six months. I first visited my mother, then living at Mansfield, Ohio, and returned to Washington, where, on the 1st day of May, 1850, I was married to Miss Ellen Boyle Ewing, daughter of the Hon. Thomas Ewing, Secretary of the Interior. TDepartment. We made a wedding-tour to Baltimore, New York, Niagara, and Ohio, and returned to Washington by the 1st of July. General Taylor participated in the celebration of the Fourth of July, a ve richly by reason of their promptness, fairness, and fidelity. The correspondence was sent to Washington, and the result was, that Major Waggaman was ordered to St. Louis, and I was ordered to New Or not the least difficulty in supplying the troops and satisfying the head of the department in Washington. About Christmas, I had notice that my family, consisting of Mrs. Sherman, two children, an
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 4: California. 1855-1857. (search)
pers procured from New York, to show that Casey had once been sentenced to the State penitentiary at Sing Sing. Casey took mortal offense, and called at the Bulletin office, on the corner of Montgomery and Merchant Streets, where he found King, and violent words passed between them, resulting in Casey giving King notice that he would shoot him on sight. King remained in his office till about 5 or 6 P. M., when he started toward his home on Stockton Street, and, as he neared the corner of Washington, Casey approached him from the opposite direction, called to him, and began firing. King had on a short cloak, and in his breast-pocket a small pistol, which he did not use. One of Casey's shots struck him high up in the breast, from which he reeled, was caught by some passing friend, and carried into the express-office on the corner, where he was laid on the counter, and a surgeon sent for. Meantime, Casey escaped up Washington Street, went to the City Hall, and delivered himself to the
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 6: Louisiana. 1859-1861. (search)
y family in Lancaster, and after a few days proceeded to Washington, to endeavor to procure from the General Government the our cadets by the beginning of the next term. I was in Washington on the 17th day of August, and hunted up my friend Majorlong rapidly to the end, prearranged by their leaders in Washington. Before the ordinance of secession was passed, or the cSlidell, from their seats in the United States Senate at Washington, Governor Moore ordered the seizure of all the United Ste death; but up to that time the national authorities in Washington had shown such pusillanimity, that the officers of the athing as superintendent of the arsenal, though I went to Washington and New York (at my own expense) on the faith of the fiv actually spent two hundred dollars and more in going to Washington and New York, thereby securing from the United States, ians, where he died about a year ago. Dr. Clark was in Washington recently, applying for a place as United States consul a
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 7: Missouri. April and May, 1861. (search)
espondence with my brother, John Sherman, at Washington; Mr. Ewing, at Lancaster, Ohio; and Major H.from my brother John, inviting me to come to Washington, as he wanted to see me; and from Major Turnthe Confederate States. I must have reached Washington about the 10th of March. I found my brotherseemed to him gloomy and extravagant. About Washington I saw but few signs of preparation, though ttgomery was in the cabinet of Mr. Lincoln at Washington, and to him seemed committed the general manth, I received the following dispatch: Washington, April 6, 1861. Major W. T. Sherman: Willy, Monday, April 8, 1861. Hon. M. Blair, Washington, D. C.: I received, about nine o'clock Saturose; and, therefore, after my hasty visit to Washington, where I saw no chance of employment, I came1861. Hon. S. Cameron, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. dear sir: I hold myself now, as alwayceived a dispatch from my brother Charles in Washington, telling me to come on at once; that I had b[2 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 8: from the battle of Bull Run to Paducah--Kentucky and Missouri. 1861-1862. (search)
two horses and equipment, and we returned to Washington together. The Congress assembled punctual 1861, the rebels had two armies in front of Washington; the one at Manassas Junction, commanded by nearly a month before they actually reached Washington, and were then mustered in about a month aftheadquarters still remained in a house in Washington City. I then thought, and still think, that what he must leave early the next morning for Washington. We accordingly all took hacks, crossed t at best neutral; and as to arms, he had, in Washington, promised General Anderson forty thousand oft he might attend to my requests on reaching Washington. We all spent the evening together agreeablCameron and party going on to Cincinnati and Washington, and I to Camp Dick Robinson to see General To General L. Thomas, Adjutant-General, Washington, D. C. sir: On my arrival at Camp Dick Robinvember 8, 10 P. M. To General McClellan, Washington, D. C.: Dispatch just received. We are forc[17 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 12 (search)
and, from what he then told me, I believe he intended such a campaign, but was overruled from Washington. Be that as it may, the army had no sooner settled down at Corinth before it was scattered: Gizens with the assertion that Lee had defeated McClellan at Richmond; that he would soon be in Washington; and that our turn would come next. The extreme caution of General Halleck also indicated thath of July, at Moscow, I received a dispatch from him, announcing that he had been summoned to Washington, which lie seemed to regret, and which at that moment I most deeply deplored. He announced thinistration of civil affairs. At the time when General Halleck was summoned from Corinth to Washington, to succeed McClellan as commander-in-chief, I surely expected of him immediate and important neral Rosecrans. General Ord had succeeded to the division of McClernand (who had also gone to Washington), and held Bolivar and Grand Junction. I had in Memphis my own and Hurlbut's divisions, and o
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 13 (search)
lonel J. C. Kelton, Assistant Adjutant-General, Headquarters of the Army, Washington, D. C. dear Colonel: Please acknowledge to the major-general commanding the r field service. Of course all things must now depend on events in front of Washington and in Kentucky. The gunboat Eastport and four transports loaded with prisral: The following is a copy of dispatch just received from Washington: Washington, December 7, 1862.--12 M. General Grant: The capture of Grenada may change were working down. That day General Grant dispatched to General Halleck, in Washington, as follows: Oxford, December 8, 1862. Major-General H. W. Halleck, WasWashington, D. C.: General Sherman will command the expedition down the Mississippi. He will have a force of about forty thousand men; will land above Vicksburg (up and asked him what he meant by it. He said that he did not like him; that in Washington, before coming West, he had been introduced to him by President Lincoln, and
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 14 (search)
his wife, one of the most beautiful ladies of our country, with whom I had been acquainted in Washington at the time of General Taylor's administration. Behind the mansion was the usual double row ois place copies of certain letters which have not heretofore been published: [private.] Washington, August 29, 1868. Major-General W. T. Sherman, Vicksburg, Mississippi. my dear General: Theour letter will not be put on file, and cannot hereafter be used against you. You have been in Washington enough to know how every thing a man writes or says is picked up by his enemies and misconstrus, camp on Big Black, Mississippi, September 17, 1863. H. W. Halleck, Commander-in-Chief, Washington, D. C. dear General: I have received your letter of August 29th, and with pleasure confide to he kind manner of his transmitting to me the appointment of brigadier-general. I know that in Washington I am incomprehensible, because at the outset of the war I would not go it blind and rush headl
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