Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 51999-h.htm or 51999-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51999/51999-h/51999-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51999/51999-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/lifemilitarycare00head [Illustration: IN THE EVERGLADES OF FLORIDA.] [Illustration: YOUNG AMERICANS MODERN HISTORY OF HEROES] LIFE AND MILITARY CAREER OF MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN. by REV. P. C. HEADLEY, Author of “Napoleon,” “Josephine,” “Women of the Bible,” “Hero Boy,” etc., etc. New York: William H. Appleton, 92 & 94 Grand Street. 1865. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by Wm. H. Appleton, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. T O H E N R Y S T A N L E Y A L L E N, E S Q., O F N E W Y O R K, THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED, W I T H S I N C E R E R E S P E C T A N D R E G A R D, BY THE AUTHOR. P R E F A C E. ALTHOUGH General Sherman’s military career has only reached its most interesting and brilliant period, grateful and admiring thousands will welcome an authentic outline of his history to the present time. The facts of his early life were obtained from those who knew him best. To Colonel Bowman, an appreciative friend of General Sherman, whose sketches of him in the _U. S. Service Magazine_ were graphic and reliable, to the _Army and Navy Journal_ and able correspondents, we are indebted for valuable material. The pen-portrait of the great commander, by Mr. Alvord, which has never before been published, will be read with special interest. The volume is not offered to the public as a complete biography, with all that might have been omitted carefully sifted from the essential statements, but the annals of a remarkable man, with incidents connected with his movements; affording the youth and all others, a general view of the nation’s hero, from infancy to the unrivalled distinction he now holds. May the unpretending volume stimulate the youthful mind to virtuous and noble deeds, while it contributes to the more complete and voluminous memoirs which will be written in the peaceful future before us, for whose blessings of a perpetuated Union and civil liberty we shall owe a lasting debt of gratitude to General Sherman. C O N T E N T S.