Gen. Sherman's Farewell Address

Headquartei s. Military División of t!,e} Miscissippi, in the field, S Wualii gtOD, l). C, Tueikhy, May 30 ) PFECIAIi IJKI.U DKDKR No. 7G. The GciKTal Cuinniautüug announcui tu thu irniics of the Tentiessce aué Georgia that the time luis coint; for us j to part. Our woik i.-í done, utid anuid enoinies no kmger defy us. Somo oí you wil! bu retained in service unti! ïurther order. Now that we ato ahout to sepárale aud mingle wilh the civil world, it bccotut's a pleafing duty ti iccall to mind the situatiou of na; ion al affaira. When but littld moro Ibao a year ago we were gathered abnut tbo j twiniiijr clitï.s of Lookout Moiiutaiii, and i all thu fu! uro was wrapped in doubt and UDcertainly, three uimics had como togothor fruui dirft.aot fields, with sepáralo uislories, yot bounrl by one comrilon cause - the union of our country and ihe perpetuation of the giveminüut of our iiihorilsncc'. There is no nei'd to recall to your rjBOfnorie, Tunnel H il', with Roeky Faoe Mountain, and Buzzad Koost G:ip, with the uly forts oi Dalton behiud. We were in eurnest, and pausei nol for dangt.T and d;ffirulty, but di"-Ued tbrovsgh Knake Creek Gap itnd feil on Resuou ; then on to the Etowah, to Dallas and Kenesaw ; and the heafca of surnuier found us on the banks of the Chattuboochie, far from home, and dopendont on a single road for supplies. Again, we wero not to be lield back by any obstados ; we crossed the river and fought four heavy buttlus for the pOi-8ession of tho citadel of Atlaata. That was th crisis oí our hiatory. A doubt utill clouded our future, but we solved tho problom. L)ustroying Atlanta, We struct boldlv acrosn tho átate of Georgia, secured all the main artieiea of life used by our enemy, and Cluisiinas found us at S'wannab. Waitin-g thero only long enough to fill our vvagous, vva began another marcli, whioh for peril, labor and results will compare with any ever made by au orgamzed ariny. The floods of the 8uvaanah, the swamps of the Combaheo and the Edisto, the high bilis and rock of tbe Snniee, the flat quagtniren of the Peedee and Cupe Fear rivern, wera all passed in mid wiuter, with its floods and rain, in tho faoe of nn uocumubiting enemy, and after the battle of' Averboro and Bentonsville, we once mor oatne out of the wilderness to meet our friends at Goldsboro. Even then we pauaed only long eronüh to get-uiw olothipg and to relond our ajiotis, and uü;aiu pushed on to lialeigh aud beyond utril wa met our onetny suing for pcaeu iuste.'id of wur, and cfl'eriug to Bubniit to the iiiju!' d laws of bis and our countiy. As iong as that enonsy was dt'tiant, hunger, Dor Cild had ohecked us; ! ut v ken he wlxo had fought u. hard and persisttmtly, offered eul)iui8-ioii, y our ifBiieral llioutjht it wrong to pursut bnu fuFtiier, ari(i uogotiaMou? folluwed, whioli resulted. as ynu ail know, in bin surren ■lir. H'iw far the operatione of the armjr have contributed tu tho ove:ihrovv of the Confederacy, aud to tlie peiee whiuh now dawnsou us. must bejudjjed by others. not by ; but thatyoii have done all that men could do hna been ad m.t'cd by those in astboritv, and wo Imve a righi to join in he universal j y that ülis our land becauutj tlie war in over, and our gnvernuieni stand vindi oated befóte the world by tho joint ao rion of the voluuteer atmies of the United States. To such as remsin in the military service, yoar Geutral need ooly reiniud you that eucoeses i') thtt past are due to hard wurk aud discipline, and that the aame work and dis ciplme are equaily important in the future. To suoh as go home, he would only say that our favjred country in so rand, so fXtengive. so divuritit-d in climate, moü, and priductions, that everv man can surely find a hoCJö and oecnpa tion suited to bis taste , and none sliou d yield to the natural mpoteuce ure to restilt frotn our past life of exoitemeiit. and adventure. You will be invited to -eek new advonturci abroad ; but. do nut yield to the temptatiori, fwr it will lead onlv to doath and diitippnintmeot Your General now bids you all farewcll, with the full belief that as in war you lavo been good eoldiers, so in peaou you wiil make good eitizens ; and if, unfortunately, new war should arise in our ountry, Sfierman'fl nrrqy will be th tirnt to liuckle on tho old anuor, and come forth to maintain the government oí our iuherituncs and our choice. By ordi-r of (Signed ) Maj. Gen. W. T. SHERMAN j M Daytos, Assistsiü Adj't (Jon.