SIIL'KMAN, WILLIAM TK< TMSKII. 



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try. Everything was done with perfect regu- 

 larily. There were ',.'.. ~>i<t \\agon-, cadi drawn liy 

 six mules, and I he-,, \\i-iv distributed at inter- 

 vals <>n tin- line. Foraging |mriies went mil 

 every morning, and what they obtained was 

 brought to the line and placed in the wagons 

 without Mopping them for a moment. Nearly 

 all of the (ieor^ia Central Kailroad was de- 

 st roved. No verious opposition was met, except 

 that Wheeler's Confederate cavalry hung on the 

 Hanks of the army and occasionally had an en- 

 gagement with Kilpat rick's. A few miles above 

 Savannah there was some fighting with infan- 

 try, and Fort McAllister, guarding that city, 

 \\a- carried by storm. Here lie established com- 

 munication with the blockading Meet, and on 

 |)ec. 'Jl his troops marched into the city. His 

 entire loss in the march to the sea was 1(4 men. 

 After remaining at Savannah four weeks, 

 Sherman set out on a march northward through 

 the Carolinas. He threatened lioth Charleston 

 and Augusta, lint passed net ween them and 

 moved directly to Columbia. Thence he moved 

 northeasterly, through' Camdcn. Cheruw. and 

 Fayetteville. to Qoloflboro, and thence north- 

 westward to Kaleigh. This march was much 

 more dillieult than that through Georgia, for ho 

 had to cross largo rivers, instead of moving 

 parallel with them; but it lacked the mystery 

 and romance of the other, and hence is not so 

 famous. How he was opposed by a hastily 

 gathered Confederate force under Gen. Joseph 

 E. Johnston, at Averysboro and Bcntonville. and 

 how Johnston surrendered to him at Durham 

 Station, near lialeigh. April 26, are told on page 

 Kid of this volume. This great movement of 

 Sherman's 60.000 veterans through the heart of 

 the Confederacy hastened its downfall, ami must 

 shortly have compelled the surrender of Lee's 

 army had his lines around Petersburg not been 



al reaily broken by Grant. 



The' war being ended. Sherman's army passed 

 in grand review in Washington. May 24. and a 

 week later lie took leave of them in a farewell 

 order. For the next four years he was in com- 

 mand of the military division of the Mississippi, 

 with headquarters at St. Lonis. When Grant 

 was made full general. July 2~>. 18(i(>. Sherman 

 was promoted to lieutenant-general : and when 

 Grant became President. March 4. 1H'.!. Sher- 

 man succeeded to t he generalship, with head- 

 quarters at Washington. In 1871-'72 he made 

 a professional tour in Europe. He was placed 

 on the retired list, Feb. 8, 1884. and two years 

 later he became a resident of New York city, 

 living first at the Fifth Avenue Hotel and after- 

 ward in a house that he bought in West Sev- 

 enty-first Street. His funeral was a grand mili- 

 tary pageant, witnessed by tens of thousands of 

 people. His l.od v was taken to St. Louis and 

 interred by the side of his wife, who had died 

 about a year earlier. (Jen. Sherman had in some 

 respects a keener insight info men and affairs 

 than any other of our great military men. and 

 he was by far the ablest writer among them. 

 His Memoirs." written by himself, were pub- 

 lished originally in 1*75 '(New York, a vols.J. 

 and were somewhat revised ami iv-i. ued i 

 Besides this. Ins only book, numerous interest- 

 ing letters of his are extant, for he was a volu- 

 minous correspondent. He had a genial and 



kindly di-po-ilion. ai.d i-nj..\..| ,t.t 



JMiplllanl). He could ejinh Inn- I . . :. !' 

 of the I'lliled Mali - if he Would l.,i . 



the Republican nomination, HIM! In M H the only 

 man that ever n fu-cd that nflin-. 



SOI III < AHOIINA. a S.,uih.rr, Xalr.oM 

 of the original thirteen, ratified ' 'ution 



May U:!. 17>-H; area. :t.7*0 square mil.-*. Tl 

 illation, according to m. h dei-nnmd n-u-, UM- 

 J 111.117:5 in IT'.KI; :;i:,..V..l , 1MMI; 4i:,.ll.'. in 

 1*10: -|(.74I in IKMI; -si.lKl , I-: 

 in 1H40; <;i;s.:,u7 M, IV..-.M; -C::.;IH ,,. 

 :n:,.i;i)i; in ISO: !l':,.:,;7 m I>.HI : ,,nd l.l.'il.- 

 141) in 1M0. Capital, Columbia. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during tb year: Governor. Henjiimin K. 

 Tillman, Di'inocral ; Lieutenan'-(io\ernor. Ku- 

 gene B. Garv; S-creturv of State. .1. K. Tindal : 

 Treasurer, W. T. C. hates; Auditor, W. 11. 

 Kllerhe; At torne\ -( ieneral. Y. J. I'OIH-. cle-tnl 

 a justice of the Supreme Court bv the (. 



Assembly oil I>ec. ::. and sllcci eded by .1. L. M< - 



J.aurin. who was eh-cied \>\ the General A 



1 ly on Dec. J) ; Superintendent of Kducatiori, 



W. I). Mayfield ; Railroad Commissioner-. D'Arcy 



I'. Duncan. Eugene I'. Jervey, and Thomas': 



Chief-Just ice of the Supreme Court. Henry M. - 

 her, elected by the (ieneral As-embiy on Dec. 

 1, the office having IM-CU vacant since the death 

 of Chief-Justice W. D. Simp.-on. in DecemU-r. 

 is;. ii; A-sociate .lu-tices, Samuel M.dowaii. 

 Henry Mcher. promoted a> above stated. nd 

 Y. J. Pope, elected by the General Assembly on 

 I)..-. ::. 



Population by Races. The following table 

 shows the white and colored population of the 

 Slate in lf-H)and IS'.-O. a- reported by the Kid- 

 cm! census: 



