Twenty Years in Europe: A Consul-General's Memories of Noted People, with Letters From General W. T. ShermanByers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
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Twenty Years in Europe: A Consul-General's Memories of Noted People, with Letters From General W. T. Sherman
Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
Europe -- Description and travel
Sherman, Gen. W. T., Visit at Zurich, 58;
at Berne, 61;
I visit his home in Washington, 68;
Mrs. Sherman, 67;
letter from her, 104;
takes me to see Mr. Blaine, 300;
invites me to his home in St. Louis, 275;
my article on the March to the Sea, 276;
life in the Sherman home, 277;
conversations with the General, 276;
gives me his army badge, 280;
in New York, 288;
his immense popularity with the people, 289;
death of Mrs. Sherman, 296;
at reunion of Army of Tennessee, 297;
his sickness and death, 301, 302;
speeches in the Senate, 302;
his funeral, 302.
Letters from Gen. Sherman:
Franco-German War, 29
Four letters as to his coming abroad, 54, 76
Loss of the “Atlantic”, 80
Thiers, 87
Letter, 93
Cuba, 96
Too Many Commanders, 102
War Histories, 103, 283, 292
Negro Question, 109
Writing His Memoirs, 109
Prussian Army Maneuvers, 118
Confiscation by Taxes, 147
Confederates More Popular than Union Men, 163
Ready to Surrender, 163
About Italy, 190
Grant and the Presidency, 192
Politics, 193
His Son “Tom”, 198
The Duke of Wellington, 212
Assassination of President Garfield, 213, 214
Science of War, 213
The Mississippi Valley, 222
Himself and the Presidency, 223
Retirement from the army, 233
His “Flaming Sword”, 236
The Presidency, 237
Views of Rome, 258
Politics, 259
Party Stronger than Patriotism, 271
Farms, 272
Taxes, 272, 282
Money Lending and Taxes, 273
“Keep Out of Debt”, 273
Memoirs, 275, 298
Grant’s Book, 283
Newspapers, 285
Exhibited Like a Circus, 289
No Union Man Left in Office Abroad, 290
The Magazines, 289, 291
March to the Sea, 292
General Wolseley, 293
Late Rebels Getting Control, 293
Sheridan Dying, 294
At Columbus, 295
Mrs. Sherman’s Death, 296
Tell, William, 50;
a relic from Tell’s chapel, 50
Terry, C. T., 64
Tilden-Hayes Contest, 125
Tilton, Rollin, 265, 267
Treves, 185
Twain, Mark, in Munich, 160
At the Artists’ Club, 161
Conversations with him, 160
Vedder, Elihu, 265
Victor, Emanuel, 101
Wagner, Richard, Life at Zurich, 141
Walton, Minnie, 113
“Wangensbach”, 106
War between France and Germany, 28
Washburne, E. B., 64
Willi, Dr., 141
Wilson, Senator Jas. F., 299;
Blaine’s regard for him, 300;
secures my reappointment, to Switzerland, 303.
Wood, Shakspeare, 269
Zurich, 20, 21;
Mob at, 32, 114
FOOTNOTES:
[1] “Switzerland and the Swiss.”
[2] A detailed description of the incidents of the adventure within the
lines of the enemy appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, May, 1880, and is
repeated in Mr. Byers’ “Last Man of the Regiment.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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