...ap set for me by the Rebels. While Sherman, to cover his discomfiture, protests in his book that he never had any idea of either Mobile or Selma, but, as on a previous occasion (December, 1863, at Chickasaw bayou ), he lays all the blame on a subordinate. The two campaigns, as to conceptive development and results, are quite similar from a military standpoint. Now let us examine into the object and resul...