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Quotation from Memoirs by William Tecumseh Sherman
“The child that bore my name, and in whose future I reposed with more confidence than I did in my own plan of life, now floats a mere corpse, seeking a grave in a distant land, with a weeping mother, brother, and sisters, clustered about him”
Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XIV (letter to Capt. C. C. Smith, 4 October 1863) (Project Gutenberg #2616 (Vol. I))
Written at midnight in the Gayoso House to the battalion that had adopted Willie as its mascot sergeant.
Citation: "The child that bore my name, and in whose future I reposed with more confidence than I did in my own plan of life, now floats a mere corpse, seeking a grave in a distant land, with a weeping mother, brother, and sisters, clustered about him" — William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XIV (letter to Capt. C. C. Smith, 4 October 1863) (Project Gutenberg #2616 (Vol. I)). (id shermans-memoirs-q12)
Portrait: William Tecumseh Sherman, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
