Excerpt from The Mississippi Valley, in the Civil War
In the course of my annual visit to St. Louis, in. the spring of 1886, 1 gave four lectures in the great theatre of the Exposition Building, in aid of the fund for erecting a monument to General Grant. These lectures touched upon many of the points treated in chapters i.-viii. of the present work, ending with the battle of Chattanooga. It is pleasant to remember the warm interest shown in the lectures by General Sherman, who "presided" on each occasion, and enlivened the suppers which followed with his abounding good-fellowship and his flashes of quaint wit. Those were evenings not to be forgotten.
The lectures - illustrated with maps, diagrams, views of towns and fortresses, landscapes and portraits, with the aid of the stereopticon - were given during two years in many cities north of Mason and Dixon"s line, from Lewiston in Maine to Portland in Oregon. For illustrating battles a stereopticon is most useful, enabling a lecturer to throw upon the screen his diagrams and his landscapes by turns, so that each helps to elucidate the other.
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