Life of Wm Tecumseh Sherman .. . WELL TO THE SOUTH. ings and elsewhere throughout the city, and along thariver ships displayed every flag on earth except the Starsand Stripes. Everybody seemed to regard the change ofgovernment as complete and final, and believed that seces-sion would be quietly acquiesced in by the nation, al-though men were steadily being enlisted and armed todefend the State. Amid such scenes, on February 25th,Sherman bade farewell to his friends, and set out for hisold home at Lancaster. The Alexandria Seminary was broken up by the the faculty and students joined th
Life of Wm Tecumseh Sherman .. . WELL TO THE SOUTH. ings and elsewhere throughout the city, and along thariver ships displayed every flag on earth except the Starsand Stripes. Everybody seemed to regard the change ofgovernment as complete and final, and believed that seces-sion would be quietly acquiesced in by the nation, al-though men were steadily being enlisted and armed todefend the State. Amid such scenes, on February 25th,Sherman bade farewell to his friends, and set out for hisold home at Lancaster. The Alexandria Seminary was broken up by the the faculty and students joined the Rebel army except-ing two professors and one student. Sherman met severalof his former associates during the war, and for many yearsafter the war maintained a friendly acquaintance withthem. The Seminary was re-organized in 1865, but a fewyears later was totally destroyed by fire. Governor Mooresplantation was laid waste during the war, and Shermanwas afterward of great service to him in regaining; posses-sion of his HON. JOHN SHERMAN CHAPTER VI. THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR. The South Excited and Ready—The North Indifferent and Unpre-pared—Shermans Interview with Lincoln—His Plain Talk to hisBrother—Disgusted with the Politicians—A St. Louis StreetRailroad President—War Talk in St. Louis—A Clerkship De-clined—His Loyalty Doubted—Prophesying a Great Struggle—Bloodshed in St. Louis—Back to Washington—In Service at Last. It is not easy to imagine a greater difference betweentwo sections of one nation than existed between the Northand South in the early months of 1861. In both, the samegreat topic overshadowed all other interests ; and both en-joyed full information concerning it. Both, indeed, weredeeply and equally concerned in the settlement of the greatcontroversy that was already convulsing the nation. Yetthe sentiment that prevailed in the one section varied aswidely from that in the other as though they were situatedupon different planets. In
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