WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, General St. Louis, Missouri, January 21, 1875. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. Another ten years have passed since I ventured to publish my Memoirs, and, being once more at leisure, I have revised them in the light of the many criticisms public and private. My habit has been to note in pencil the suggestions of critics, and to examine the substance of their differences; for critics must differ from the author, to manifest their superiority.

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