. Civil War echoes: character sketches and state secrets . height, and 130 pounds inweight. His head was large and rested stiffly on theneck; it seldom turned to the right or the left either inspeaking or listening. It was a square and level head,broad and long from forehead to back. His face was avery commanding one, seldom lighted up by a smile, close-cut beard with smooth-shaven chin and upper lip, andrather sallow complexion, thin lips and stern, firm mouth,rather a sour, crabbed, dyspeptic countenance, a steady,calm, cool, calculating, deep-seated eye, intelligent, fearless,and defiant. H
. Civil War echoes: character sketches and state secrets . height, and 130 pounds inweight. His head was large and rested stiffly on theneck; it seldom turned to the right or the left either inspeaking or listening. It was a square and level head,broad and long from forehead to back. His face was avery commanding one, seldom lighted up by a smile, close-cut beard with smooth-shaven chin and upper lip, andrather sallow complexion, thin lips and stern, firm mouth,rather a sour, crabbed, dyspeptic countenance, a steady,calm, cool, calculating, deep-seated eye, intelligent, fearless,and defiant. His carriage was on the old-time ministerialorder—slow, precise, deliberate, sedate, senatorial. He wasnot very sociable, being afflicted badly with dyspepsia, whichterrible malady undoubtedly tinged his mind and tendedgradually to develop in it a strong conservatism and bitterantipathy to the growing radicalism in the Senate about thetime of the Andrew Johnson impeachment trial. I predictedcorrectly the nature of his final vote, during the pendency 24. GENERAL WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN, U. S. A. Civil-war Echoes—Character of that celebrated trial. His style of speaking in debate wasin consonance with the foregoing description of his person-ality. His utterance was unimpassioned and rather profes-sorial in character, a sort of conversational, argumenta-tive, or rather dogmatic and didactic tone and manner. Hegenerally talked while on his feet in the Senate as a pro-fessor of mathematics would do in the demonstration of aproblem in that science. He had little of oratorical tempera-ment. He was wanting in the good, warm blood necessaryto the orator. He took a special delight in dry details. Hewas essentially a financier; looked at measures largely froma commercial and pecuniary standpoint. He was a typicalspecimen of one portion of New England—the frigidproduct of its snow-clad, rugged hills and pine-filled seemed to be annoyed when joked by his fellow
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