_Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies, 1832_ November Fifteenth In other words, a veteran of our civil strife, General Sherman advocated in an enemy's country the sixteenth century practices of Tilly, described by Schiller, and the later devastation of the Palatinate policy of Louis XIV, commemorated by Goethe. In the twenty-first century, perhaps, partisan feeling as regards the Civil War performances having by that time ceased to exist, American investigators, no longer regardful of a victor's self-complacency, may treat the episodes of our struggle with the same even-handed and out-spoken impartiality with which Englishmen now treat the revenges of the Restoration, or Frenchmen the dragonnades of the Grand Monarque. But when that time comes, the page relating to what occurred in 1864 in the Valley of the Shenandoah, in Georgia, and in the Carolinas,--a page which Mr. Rhodes somewhat lightly passes over--will probably be rewritten in characters of far more decided import. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS (Massachusetts) _Sherman begins his march from Atlanta to the sea, 1864_ November Sixteenth HENRY WIRZ, THE UNFORTUNATE SWISS-AMERICAN COMMANDANT AT ANDERSONVILLE On the evening before the day of the execution of Major Wirz a man visited me, on the part of a Cabinet officer, to inform me that Major Wirz would be pardoned if he would implicate Jefferson Davis in the cruelties at Andersonville.... When I visited Major Wirz the next morning he told me that the same proposal had been made to him. F. E. BOYLE (_Priest in attendance upon Major Wirz_) Some parties came to the confessor of Wirz, Rev. Father Boyle, and also to me, one of them informing me that a high Cabinet officer wished to assure Wirz, that if he would implicate Jefferson Davis with the atrocities committed at Andersonville, his sentence would be commuted. He, the messenger, or whoever he was, requested me to inform Wirz of this. LEWIS SCHADE (_German-American Attorney to Major Wirz_) November Seventeenth Sad spirit, swathed in brief mortality, Of Fate and fervid fantasies the prey, Till the remorseless demon of dismay O'erwhelmed thee--lo! thy doleful destiny Is chanted in the requiem of the sea And shadowed in the crumbling ruins gray That beetle o'er the tarn. Here all the day The Raven broods on solitude and thee: Here gloats the moon at midnight, while the Bells Tremble, but speak not lest thy Ulalume Should startle from her slumbers, or Lenore Hearken the love-forbidden tone that tells The shrouded legend of thine early doom And blast the bliss of heaven forevermore. JOHN B. TABB _First American Monument erected to the memory of Edgar Allan Poe dedicated in Baltimore, 1875_ November Eighteenth