Springfield (MASS) Republican, October 19, 1894, p. 4. NOTE: It seems likely that the Gresham referenced in the article below was one and the same as Walter Q. Gresham who was enumerated in Harrison County, Indiana, in 1860. His occupation was lawyer. His wife was Matilda, a native of Kentucky. THE STORY OF SECRETARY GRESHAM of the state department is told in a very interesting way by Kate Field in her Washington. (sic) It is worth the telling when partisan newspapers are abusing Mr. Gresham on every occasion and without reason or principle. Gresham was a lawyer in good practice in Corydon, Indiana, some 20 miles from Louisville when the rebellion broke out. His father was a Virginia, his mother a Kentuckian, and they settled in Corydon in their early married life. His wife was a Kentucky girl, and they had a boy three years old and a baby daughter when the summons came. Gresham began the study of military tactics before Sumter was fired on; in September he went to the field as lieutenant-colonel of the 38th Indiana regiment which was so hurriedly recruited that the men went into active service without uniforms. Three months later Gresham returned to recruit the 53rd Indiana regiment, led them as colonel, and after the fall of Vicksburg was made brigadier-general and took part in all the important movements of the army of the Tennessee. He commanded a division in Georgia, and at Atlanta his left leg was shattered, an inch and a half of bone being shot away. He was conveyed to Nashville by a roundabout way to avoid falling into the hands of the enemy; 30 miles of the journey were made in an ambulance, and it was at the risk of his life. Mrs. Gresham met him at Nashville, and they got as far as New Albany, Indiana, a suburb of Louisville, when the wounded man could go no further. For ten months Gen. Gresham could not leave his bed, and when he finally was able to do that, it was on crutches, and on crutches he moved for five years afterward. This is the man whom the New York Tribune delights in accusing of lack of patriotism and lowering the statesmanship of America. A soldier's record, no matter how meritorious, counts for nothing with such organs if the soldier does not stick to the Republican Party through thick and thin.