The Result of Eastern Blood and Western Developments--Lincoln, Grant, Chase and Sherman Specimens of it--The Sherman Family Character--Hon. Thomas Ewing adopts Sherman--Character of the Boy--He Enters West Point--His Peculiar Traits Showing thus Early--How he Treated his "Pleb"--His Early Military Service --His Appearance as First Lieutenant--Marries and Resigns-- Banker at San Francisco--Superintendent of Louisiana Military Academy--His Noble Letter Resigning the Superintendency--He Foresees a Great War--Cameron and Lincoln Think not--Sherman at Bull Run--He Goes to Kentucky--Wants Two Hundred Thousand Troops--The False Report of his Insanity--Joins Grant; His Services at Shiloh--Services in the Vicksburg Campaigns-- Endurance of Sherman and his Army--Sherman's estimate of Grant --How to live on the Enemy--Prepares to move from Atlanta-- The Great March--His Courtesy to the Colored People--His Foresight in War--Sherman on Office-Holding. 423 CHAPTER XV.--OLIVER O. HOWARD. Can there be a Christian Soldier?--General Howard's Birth--His Military Education--His Life Before the Rebellion--Resigns in Order to get into the Field--Made Brigadier for Good Conduct at Bull Run--Commands the Eleventh Corps and Joins the Army at Chattanooga--His Services in the Army of the Potomac-- Extreme Calmness on the Field of Battle--Services with Sherman --Sherman's high Opinion of him--Col. Bowman's Admiration of Howard's Christian Observances--Patriotic Services while Invalided at Home--Reproves the Swearing Teamster--Placed over the Freedmen's Bureau--The Central Historic Fact of the War--The Rise of Societies to Help the Freedmen--The Work of the Freedmen's Bureau--Disadvantages Encountered by it, and by General Howard--Results of the Bureau thus far--Col. Bowman's Description of Gen. Howard's Duties--Gen. Sherman's Letter to Gen. Howard on Assuming the Post--Estimate of Gen. Howard's Abilities. 447 CHAPTER XVI.--WILLIAM A. BUCKINGHAM.