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Sherman would have to come back from Atlanta, Grant from the Peninsula. The voting was over, and the Government was despondent. Then it was that Garfield rose, and moving a reconsideration, made a speech full of fire and earnestness, and the House, carried by storm, passed the bill, and President Lincoln made a draft for half a million men.
Stonewall Jackson was personally no braver than they; it was his bravery of the higher sort that set him as a general so incomparably above them. The same high quality belonged to Grant and Sherman, and to Washington and Greene in the Revolutionary War. It was in this supreme kind of boldness that Robert Lee pre-eminently excelled.
There was much red tape to go through with, but at last the orderly went clattering back to the General with his answer, and close behind him followed an ambulance with Lee and a couple of guards, armed with short carbines and heavy pistols. As they entered the quarters through the kitchen, Mrs. Sherman placed both hands on Lee's shoulders shoulders as straight and proud as ever.
The long discussion had demonstrated the difficulties of the situation. But public necessity and party interest combined to induce a sacrifice of financial theories in order that practical results might be achieved. The bill reported to the Senate by Mr. Sherman on the 21st of December embodied the conclusions which had been reached in private conference.
Shortly afterward he was much pleased by a letter from William T. Sherman so greatly prized that it was framed, and now hangs on the wall of his Nebraska home. Following is a copy: "FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL, NEW YORK. "COLONEL WM. F. CODY: "Dear Sir: In common with all your countrymen, I want to let you know that I am not only gratified but proud of your management and success.
He did not know, the difference between an ironclad and a "tin-clad." He had heard that gunboats had taken Fort Henry, and that was all be knew about them. I said to him: "I'll tell you what I will do, General McClernand. If General Sherman goes in command of the troops, I will go myself in command of a proper force, and will insure the capture of the post."
Sherman got off on the 3d of February and moved out on his expedition, meeting with no opposition whatever until he crossed the Big Black, and with no great deal of opposition after that until he reached Jackson, Mississippi. This latter place he reached on the 6th or 7th, Brandon on the 8th, and Morton on the 9th.
We passed into the house together and shut the door after us. Sherman then expressed his alarm at the move I had ordered, saying that I was putting myself voluntarily in a position which an enemy would be glad to manoeuvre a year or a long time to get me in. I was going into the enemy's country, with a large river behind me, and the enemy holding points strongly fortified above and below.
Hardee being sent to Savannah to command a department on the coast, General Cheatham succeeded to the command of the corps. Hood proposed to cross the Chattahoochee some twenty miles west of Atlanta, and move on Powder Springs, where he could reach the railroad and force Sherman to attack him or to move south. Mr.
It was at this point probably, that Sherman first realized that with the forces at his disposal, the keeping open of his line of communication with the North would be impossible if he expected to retain any force with which to operate offensively beyond Atlanta. He proposed, therefore, to destroy the roads back to Chattanooga, when all ready to move, and leave the latter place garrisoned.
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