--The following sketch of
William Tecumseh Sherman, who is at present attracting something of the public attention, we find in the Baltimore
American:
Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman is the full name of the hero who has marched upon
Savannah.
He was born in
Lancaster, Ohio, in 1820; his father,
Honorable Charles R. Sherman, one of the
Justices of the
Ohio Supreme Court, and eider brother of
Senator Sherman.
He was educated in the family of the
Honorable Thomas Ewing, the distinguished lawyer, whose daughter he married, becoming brother-in-law to the now
General Thomas Ewing.
At sixteen he entered, and in 1840 graduated from.
West Point. In 1841 be was stationed at
Fort Moultrie,
Charleston; in 1818 he took charge of the banking-house of
Lucas,
Turner & Co.,
San Francisco, and in 1860 was
President of the
State Military Academy of
Louisiana--a post which he resigned on the first indication of secession.
declaring to
Governor Moors that "on no earthly account." would he "do any act, or think any thought, hostile to the
Government of the
United States."
General Sherman was the hero of the victory of
Shiloh, where,
General Rousseau says, "he gave us our first lessons in the field in the face of an enemy, and of men I ever saw, he was the most untuning, vigilant and patient."
Grant gave him the credit of the victory.
Sherman's was lately described as not a remarkable face, "save the nose, which organ was high, thin, and planted with accurate as vehement as the curl of a Malay cutlass.
The face and neck were rough and covered with reddish hair, the eye light in color and animated, but though restless and bounding like a ball from one object to another, neither piercing nor brilliant; the month well closed, but common; the ears large; the hands and feet long and thin; the gait a little rolling, but firm and active.
In dress and manner, there was not the slightest trace of pretension.
He spoke rapidly, and generally with an inquisitive smile.
The this
ensemble I must add a hat which was the reverse of dignified or distinguished — a simple left affair, with a round crown and dropping brim."
