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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 1 : early recollections of California . 1846 -1848 . (search)
Chapter 1: early recollections of California. 1846-1848.
In the spring of 1846 I was a first-lieutenant of Company (, Third Artillery, stationed at Fort Moultrie1846 I was a first-lieutenant of Company (, Third Artillery, stationed at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina.
The company was commanded by Captain Robert Anderson; Henry B. Judd was the senior first-lieutenant, and I was the junior first-lieutenant, and Geo that time with General Taylor's army at Corpus Christi, Texas.
In that year (1846) I received the regular detail for recruiting service, with orders to report to ptain Montgomery's two sons and the crew that had been lost the year before.
In 1846 Captain Montgomery commanded at Yerba Buena, on board the St. Mary sloop-of-war, .
When General Kearney, at Fort Leavenworth, was collecting volunteers early in 1846, for the Mexican War, he, through the instrumentality of Captain James Allen, br itate their migration to California.
But when the Mormons reached Salt Lake, in 1846, they learned that they had been forestalled by the United States forces in Cali
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 4 : California . 1855 -1857 . (search)
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)
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 13 (search)
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, Chapter 22 : campaign of the Carolinas . February and March , 1866 . (search)
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, Chapter 24 : conclusion — military lessons of the War . (search)
Chapter 24: conclusion — military lessons of the War.
Having thus recorded a summary of events, mostly under my own personal supervision, during the years from 1846 to 1865, it seems proper that I should add an opinion of some of the useful military lessons to be derived therefrom.
That civil war, by reason of the existence of slavery, was apprehended by most of the leading statesmen of the half-century preceding its outbreak, is a matter of notoriety.
General Scott told me on my arrival at New York, as early as 1850, that the country was on the eve of civil war; and the Southern politicians openly asserted that it was their purpose to accept as a casus belli the election of General Fremont in 1856; but, fortunately or unfortunately, he was beaten by Mr. Buchanan, which simply postponed its occurrence for four years. Mr. Seward had also publicly declared that no government could possibly exist half slave and half free; yet the Government made no military preparation, and the