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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 25 (search)
nsin Infantry. 35th New Jersey Infantry. 43d Ohio Infantry. 63d Ohio Infantry. Third Brigade. Licut.-Colonel J. S. Wright. 10th Illinois Infantry. 25th Indiana Infantry. 32d Wisconsin Infantry Third division. Brevet Major-General M. D. Leggett. First Brigade. Brigadier-General Charles Ewing. 16th Wisconsin Infantry. 45th Illinois Infantry. 31st Illinois Infantry. 20th Illinois Infantry. 30th Illinois Infantry. 12th Wisconsin Infantry. Second Brigade. Brigadier-General R. K. Scott. 20th Ohio Infantry. 68th Ohio Infantry. 78th Ohio Infantry. 19th Wisconsin Infantry. Fourth division. Brevet Major-General G. A. Smith. First Brigade. Brigadier-General B. F. Potts. 23d Indiana Infantry. 32d Ohio Infantry. 53d Indiana Infantry. 14th Illinois Infantry. 53d Illinois Infantry. 15th Illinois Infantry. Third Brigade. Brigadier-General W. W. Belknap. 11th Iowa Infantry. 13th Iowa Infantry. 15th Iowa Infantry. 16th Iowa Infantry. 32d Illinois
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