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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 4: General Sheridan. (search)
icago; and Major-general McDowell the South, from Louisville. General Sherman, the Commander-in-Chief, is stationed at St. Louis. Each mia brighter record, who among the Northern men, excepting Grant and Sherman, have a greater name than Sheridan? These captains are immortals,ous that a higher officer than McDowell should be on the spot, General Sherman is that higher officer. It is no great secret that General General Sherman notes these doings of Belknap and the War Office with alarm. Sherman has no taint of Caesarism. A patriot first, a soldier afterwarSherman has no taint of Caesarism. A patriot first, a soldier afterwards, he values military prowess mainly as the shield of liberty and safeguard of the Commonwealth. Unable to support a personal policy, even rican Achilles, disgusted by the passing phase of public affairs. Sherman is too great a man to slight; and Belknap, on receiving Sheridan'ss, explaining Sheridan's mission to the South. Of this letter General Sherman simply acknowledged the receipt. General McDowell's case wa
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 5: the State House. (search)
f him — a man who brings them no substantial gain, and lays them open to reproach of Caesarism. To Kellogg's last appeal for help, the President wired, impatiently: It is exceedingly unpalatable to use troops in anticipation of danger; let the State authorities be right, and then proceed with their duties. Other critics, also of his own party, show as much impatience as the President. Colonel Morrow, a Republican officer, is travelling through the country, and reporting on affairs to General Sherman. Morrow reports, according to his observation, that the South is loyal to the Union, but opposed to scalawags and carpet-baggers. The Republican majority in Congress, scared by the November elections, have appointed a committee to visit New Orleans and look into the state of things. Three members of this committee, Foster of Ohio, a Republican, Phelps of New Jersey, a Republican, and Potter of New York, a Democrat, are in the city taking evidence, and the two Republicans hardly hide
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 7: banditti (search)
eridan, now twelve days old, is sent to General McDowell, from which this eminent soldier learns that his command in the Gulf has been swept away! In telling General Sherman that Sheridan has taken the command in New Orleans, Townsend describes this officer as having annexed the Gulf, and adds by way of clincher, the measure is deemed necessary, and is approved. General Sherman answers dryly: St. Louis: Jan. 6, 1875. Your telegram of the fifth instant, stating that General Sheridan has annexed Department of Gulf to his command, has been received. Meanwhile the President is called to study a remonstrance and appeal from Speaker Wiltz, who first American citizens. Though brave and loyal, they are free men, caring little for glory, and much for liberty. On whom besides Sheridan can tile President rely? Sherman stands aloof. McDowell is offended, not only by the loss of his Department on the Gulf, but by the secret orders under which his province has been seized. Yet
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 8: the Conservatives. (search)
mething higher to preserve than blind fidelity to a party flag. Senator Trimble is impressed as Colonel Morrow and the Congressional Sub-Committee are impressed. Morrow has now reported to General Emory, who has sent his statement on to General Sherman, that after wide and close enquiry in the counties lying on Red River he is convinced that, so far as relates to the United States, there is not the slightest disposition to oppose the general government, but that the opposition to the Stattoine cannot be put down.... The present State government cannot maintain itself in power a single hour without the protection of Federal troops. . . . The State government has not the confidence and respect of any portion of the community. General Sherman has sent these warnings on to Washington, marked by him with the significant words- for the personal perusal of General Grant. What say the Sub-Committee? Foster of Ohio, and Phelps of New Jersey, agree with Potter of New York, in a Repo
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 11: the Rotunda. (search)
ve lost so much, they are afraid of risking more. By secrecy and silence on the Caesarian question of a third term, the President lost them many thousands of supporters in the North, and now, by his unhappy interference with the Legislature of New Orleans, the South is gone. The Senators fear to face new trials. Are they to go further in a course for which Radicals like Foster and Phelps cannot say a word? High office has no effect in softening censure of the President's course. General Sherman takes no pains to hide his views. Vice-President Wilson opposes his official superior, and some of the leading journals are demanding that Grant shall retire from the White House, leaving his powers in Wilson's hands. More than all else, Hamilton Fish declares that if the President sustains Sheridan and justifies Durell and Packard, he will resign his post as Secretary of State. This menace tells. Fish is not only the ablest man in Grant's Cabinet, but one of the ablest men in Ameri
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 12: Georgia. (search)
Chapter 12: Georgia. Atlanta, capital of Georgia, is rising from the dust in which Sherman's too famous march from Chattanooga left her — a sacrifice of war-when the fair young city, not yet seventeen years old, perished in her youth; wasted so fiercely that her waters seemed to be on fire; so thoroughly that a rosebush here and there was all that told of former opulence and present wreck. Atlanta, rising from her ashes, is a type of Georgia. Standing on a hill, the domes and turrets of Atlanta, shining over belts of ash and pine, endow her with a regal air. A natural crown of the adjacent flats, she looks the capital which a proud and grateful people have made her since the great calamity she suffered in the civil war. Her soil is rich and ruddy, with the wealth and colour of a Devonshire ridge. Wide fields and pastures lie around; these under grass, those under cotton, these again under rice. Maize and tobacco grow on every side, and overhead hangs a sky like that of Cy