Identifier: lifeofwmtecumseh00injohn (find matches)
Title: Life of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman ..
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Johnson, Willis Fletcher, 1857-1931 Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis), 1830-1909
Subjects: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 Generals
Publisher: (Philadelphia) Edgewood Publishing Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ia. Indeedthe fidelity of Isaac and of Colonel Masons negro boy, at atime when white men laughed at promises as things madeonly to be broken, gave Sherman a kindly feeling of re-spect for negroes which he never lost. Having little official business on hand, Sherman andsome of his comrades made a contract with Colonel J. B.Stevenson to survey his projected city of New York ofthe Pacific at the mouth of San Joaquin River and tomark out a channel through Suisun Bay. For this theywere well paid, but the city never was built. After thisSherman surveyed a large ranch in Sacramento Valleyand had some lively experiences with grizzly bears. Allhis earnings he invested in real estate at Sacramento, onwhich he made good profit. He was an interested wit-ness of the great rush of prospectors to the coast in 1849,of the organization of government under a State Consti-tution, the election of Fremont and Gwin as Senators, andall the picturesque scenes that the rising community inthose days presented.
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SHERMAN ENTERING U. S. SENATE. AT NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON. $J In the fall of 1849 ms Wend Warner was surveyingFeather River and its source, Goose Lake. While en-gaged in that work he was murdered by Indians, andSherman was much shocked and grieved at the loss. Itwas impossible at that time to punish his murderers, andit was not until the next Spring that his scattered boneswere found and buried. Sherman now became anxious to return to the East,chiefly, it is surmised, on account of his old playmate atLancaster. Accordingly, he induced General Smith to sendhim home with dispatches. In January, 1850, he went downlO Monterey to bid his friends there good-bye, and then tookpassage on a steamer for Panama. There they crossed theIsthmus, partly on mule-back and partly in a canoe.Thence they made their way to New York by steamer.Senator Gwin, Ord and A. J. Smith were members of theparty, and Sherman brought along two Spanish boys fromMonterey to put into college at Georgetown, D. C. Sher-man

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