CHAPTER VIII.
MISSOURI APRIL AND MAY, 1861.
During the time of these events in Louisiana, I was in constant correspondence with my brother, John Sherman, at Washington; Mr.
Ewing, at Lancaster, Ohio; and Major H.S.Turner, at St.Louis.

I had managed to maintain my family comfortably at Lancaster, but was extremely anxious about the future.

It looked like the end of my career, for I did not suppose that "civil war" could give me an employment that would provide for the family.

I thought, and may have said, that the national crisis had been brought about by the politicians, and, as it was upon us, they "might fight it out" Therefore, when I turned North from New Orleans, I felt more disposed to look to St.Louis for a home, and to Major.

Turner to find me employment, than to the public service.
I left New Orleans about the 1st of March, 1861, by rail to Jackson and Clinton, Mississippi, Jackson, Tennessee, and Columbus, Kentucky, where we took a boat to Cairo, and thence, by rail, to Cincinnati and Lancaster.