GENERAL SHERMAN AS A TACTICIAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4989, 30 March 1895, Page 2

GENERAL SHERMAN AS A TACTICIAN.

" He was in nothing an imitator," So writes President Harrison of one of the greatest and one of the most picturesque of the great characters developed by the civil war, The peeuliarfeatureof General Sherman's characterwas his piquant originality. Ho was a thorough master of the developed science of warfare, bat he built the solid structure of his enduring fame as a great soldier upon a basis of entire originality. He did his own thinking, ami so completely at times was ho at variance with those about him that he was thought to have an unbalanced mind. " The man is absolutely crazy," proclaimed Mnrat Halstead, in the early days of the war, when Sherman was raananivring in Kentucky; but shortly after he was put in command of a division, as General Grant, whose almost unerring judgment of men was marvellous, quickly recognised his great abilities. l'Vom thence on he was General Grant's most trusted and most valued iieutenant. " Sherman saved Shiloh," Grant said after the battle, and then the people began to believe him a great leader. It was sometime before Grant could be brought into approval of Sherman's projected movement through the enemies' lines. But at last lie came to agree with the brilliant strategist, and from that moment never doubted the success of the march, "from Atlanta to the sea"—that brightest star in Sherman's crown of fame, The men who strike out in new paths are not always cranks-they are the world's leaders and benofactors. People still say kidney disease is not curable, because that is the old theory, But there are thousands of men in this and other lands who write as does MrE. Taylor, engine-driver Oamaru, New Zealand, Dec. 24th, 189' L—l have suffered from liver and kidney diseases a little over live years. The chief symptoms were intense pains in the region of the liver in the back and spine, and sleeplessness. I was under medical advice in Dunedin, and tried a change of climate in New South Wales where also I consulted a doctor with little, if any beneficial effect. Returning to New Zealand with tlio impression that I should not be cured on this side of the grave, a very old friend urged me to try Warner's Safe Cure and Sake Pills. More to please my friend thanfrom any expectation that good would follow I acted upon the advice and found some relieffrom the first bottle. Continuing with the treatment until I had taken elevon bottles of Safe Cure and two phials of Pills, at the end of three months I found my health and strength completely re-established. All the pains and sleeplessness had disappeared and I had gained fully two stone in weight within a period of a little over eight monthi.