which it was commemorated is still a favorite marching tune.

But the work of dissecting the Confederacy, which he had set out to do, was but half accomplished. After giving his men a thorough rest in Atlanta, he set out on January 15, 1865, to cut it in twain from south to north. Northward he went, opposition melting away before him. Town after town was occupied. Columbia, the beautiful capital of South Carolina, took fire from burning cotton and was more than half consumed. Charleston, which had held out for four years against all attacks from the sea, surrendered without a blow and without Sherman's going near it. North Carolina was reached and here Sherman for the first time found a strong force, under his old opponent, General Johnston, gathered to meet him. Only one battle was fought, at Bentonville, on March 21, in which Johnston was beaten with heavy loss. He fell back on Raleigh, and Sherman was pursuing him when, on April 11, news reached him of General Lee's surrender two days before.

Further fighting would have been murder. The Confederacy was conquered. Its leaders recognized this, and on April 26 Johnston surrendered, being granted the same terms as were given to General Lee. The last appearance of Sherman's army in history was on May 24, in Washington, where it took part in the great two days' review. Sherman, in his "Memoirs," says of it as it appeared that day: "It was, in my judgment, the most magnificent army in existence, sixty-five thousand men in splendid physique, who had just completed a march of nearly two thousand miles in a hostile country."

With this review the spectacular portion of Sher

man's life ended. He remained a soldier, honored and revered, seeking no political honors, asking for no place or privilege. When, in 1868, Grant was appointed general of the army, Sherman succeeded him as lieutenant-general. When Grant was inaugurated as President, March 4, 1869, Sherman was raised to the rank of general. He was relieved at his own request, November 1, 1883, and was succeeded by Sheridan. He then took up his residence in St. Louis, afterwards removing to New York, where he died February 14, 1891.

An able critic thus sums up Sherman's qualities as a soldier: "Above all his other excellencies shone his promptitude, celerity, and immeasurable activity. What for some commanders were winter-quarters were to him a bivouac. Always ready for the start, indefatigable on the march, omnipresent in battle, relentless in pursuit, General Sherman made himself not only more feared but more respected by the enemy than any general in the national armies save, perhaps, the one who commanded them all."

Sherman was able not only as a soldier but as a writer. His "Memoirs " tell admirably the story of his military career and have given him a high literary reputation. As a speaker he was ready and apt, and said so many striking things that Chauncey Depew declared that "he never ought to be permitted to go anywhere without being accompanied by a stenographer." He was not partisan either in politics or religion. In politics no one could tell which party he favored, while in religion he expressed his creed in the following pithy sentence:

"If men will only act half as well as they know how, God will forgive them the balance."

THOMAS J. JACKSON, THE STONE WALL

OF THE CONFEDERACY

THERE was no great amount of piety among the generals of the Civil War. They were engaged in a business which called for other qualities than that of religious devotion. But one of the greatest of them was an ardent Christian, a man of prayer and conscience, of religious earnestness alike in war and peace. This was Thomas Jonathan Jackson, General Lee's right-hand man, who aided his superior in his great successes as much as Sherman and Sheridan aided Grant. The fall of Jackson on the field of Chancellorsville was a more serious disaster to Lee than the loss of that great battle would have been.

This famous soldier was born in Clarksburg, Virginia, January 21, 1824. He was of that hardy ScotchIrish stock which has given so much of strength and resolute virtue to the population of our Middle States. He entered the military academy at West Point in 1843 so poorly equipped in education that he never took a high standing in his classes, though earnest and conscientious in his studies. He showed there the same qualities which he afterwards exhibited, courage, patience, constancy of purpose, faithfulness to duty, and a simplicity of character which won everyone's confidence.

Though looked on as a dull and slow student, he graduated in 1846 seventeenth in a class of fifty-nine, and at once was sent as an artillery lieutenant to the war in Mexico, where he distinguished himself in

Scott's campaign, being twice brevetted for gallant conduct. When the war ended he bore the rank of first lieutenant and for several years was on duty at Norfolk harbor and in Florida. Ill health in 1857 caused him to resign from the army and he soon after accepted the position of professor of natural philosophy and military tactics in the military academy at Lexington, Virginia.

Jackson had the credit of being a good teacher, but he was a man of many peculiarities, one of these being an extreme bashfulness that gave an opening for much amusement to the students. It was while at Lexington that he became a member of the Presbyterian Church, and his religious fervor was always afterwards notable. Christian duty was his first thought at all times and seasons and the habit of prayer became a part of his very life. As he himself said, “I have made the practice habitual, and I can no more forget it than forget to drink when I am thirsty."

His conscientiousness was so great that on one occasion, on discovering that he had made a mistake in sending a student to his seat for an error in recitation, he could not rest an instant till he had visited the student in his room and set the matter right. To do so he had to walk a long distance through sleet and snow of a winter's night. Most men would have waited for the next day's session, but that was not Jackson's idea of duty.

In politics Jackson was a State-rights Democrat of the strictest school. His State was his country, and when Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861 he felt it his religious duty to go with it to the end. His spirit was that of a patriot called to the defence of his native land. He wrote to the governor, offering