This, too, is an expense not chargeable to us, but to those who made the war; and generally war is destruction and nothing else.
We must bear this in mind, that however peaceful things look, we are really at war; and much that looks like waste or destruction is only the removal of objects that obstruct our fire, or would afford cover to an enemy.
This class of waste must be distinguished from the wanton waste committed by army-stragglers, which is wrong, and can be punished by the death-penalty if proper testimony can be produced.
Yours, etc., W.T.SHERMAN, Major-General commanding.
Satisfied that, in the progress of the war, Memphis would become an important depot, I pushed forward the construction of Fort Pickering, kept most of the troops in camps back of the city, and my own headquarters remained in tents on the edge of the city, near Mr.Moon's house, until, on the approach of winter, Mrs.Sherman came down with the children to visit me, when I took a house nearer the fort.
All this time battalion and brigade drills were enforced, so that, when the season approached for active operations farther south, I had my division in the best possible order, and about the 1st of November it was composed as follows: First Brigade, Brigadier-General M.L.SMITH--Eighth Missouri, Colonel G.A.Smith; Sixth Missouri, Colonel Peter E.Bland; One Hundred and Thirteenth Illinois, Colonel George B.Hoge; Fifty-fourth Ohio, Colonel T.Kilby Smith; One Hundred and Twentieth Illinois, Colonel G.W.

McKeaig.
Second Brigade, Colonel JOHN ADAIR McDOWELL .-- Sixth Iowa, Lieutenant-Colonel John M.Corse; Fortieth Illinois, Colonel J.W.
Booth; Forty-sixth Ohio, Colonel O.C.Walcutt; Thirteenth United States Infantry, First Battalion, Major D.Chase.
Third Brigade, Brigadier-General J.W.

DENVER .-- Forty-eighth Ohio, Colonel P.J.Sullivan; Fifty-third Ohio, Colonel W.S.Jones; Seventieth Ohio, Colonel J.R.

Cockerill.
Fourth Brigade, Colonel DAVID STUART .-- Fifty-fifth Illinois, Colonel O.Malmburg; Fifty-seventh Ohio, Colonel W.Mungen; Eighty-third Indiana, Colonel B.Spooner; One Hundred and Sixteenth Illinois, Colonel Tupper; One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Illinois, Lieutenant-Colonel Eldridge.
Fifth Brigade, Colonel R.P.BUCKLAND .-- Seventy-second Ohio, Lieutenant-Colonel D.W.

C.Loudon; Thirty-second Wisconsin, Colonel J.W.