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General W.T. Sherman as College President
General WT Sherman as College President Author:William Tecumseh Sherman Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. PREPARING FOR THE OPENING OF THE SEMINARY First impressions of the Red River Valley. General Graham. The Seminary Building. Preparations to be made. Finan... more »ces of the school. Servants and laborers. Welcome from Braxton Bragg. Sherman's account of his first weeks- in Louisiana. He goes to the Seminary to live. Making rules for the Seminary. The work at the Seminary. The Seminary location. Sherman at work on the regulations. The difficulty of procuring text-books. Governor Moore on educational conditions in Louisiana. Meeting of the supervisors. Opposition to the military system. Professors notified to come to the Seminary. Two factions in the Board of Supervisors. Purchase of supplies in New Orleans. Danger that John Sherman's political course may embarrass W. T. Sherman in Louisiana. Helper's Impending Crisis. Sherman's views on slavery "are good enough for this country." Appointment of cadets. Braxton Bragg on Seminary affairs. Ready for the opening of the Seminary. Lack of dwelling houses near the Seminary. Slavery and politics. Final preparations for opening. Sherman and the negro servants. After a short stay in Baton Rouge for the purpose of consulting Governor Wickliffe, Sherman went to Alexandria. The newspapers that mentioned his coming were crowded with news of the John Brown raid and the trial of Brown and his followers. If Sherman had a sense of humor he probably sent copies of the Louisiana Democrat to his brother John. To Mrs. Sherman he wrote on November 12 giving his first impressions of Louisiana. Alexandria, La., Sunday, Nov. 12 [1859]. I wrote you a hasty letter yesterday whilst the stage was waiting. General Graham and others have been with me every moment so that I was unable to steal a moment's time to write you. I left the wharf boat at the mouth of...« less