The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-10-15
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK-EYE

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GEN. SHERlDAN.-Philip Henry SheNi-
| dan, to whom the country il indebted fol-
the great triumphs in Virginia, is native
Of Perry county, Ohio, born in the year
1881. He was graduated at the West Point
Military Academy in July, 1858, and a,
that time entered the army as brevet I'd
Lieutenant of the First United States In.
fantry. During the years 1854 and he
served in the Indian campaigns in Texas
and in July Of the last mentioned year, af-
| ter serving few months in command OF
one Of the forts in New York harbor, he
was ordered to California. Engaged for q
1 while in the Government railroad surveys
on the Pacific coast, ne was detached from
that service to take part in the campaign
against the Indians, in Oregon Territory.
In the severe cam paign under Major
Raines be greatly distinguished himself,
and was highly praised by his commander
| for gallant and meritorions conduct in the
light at the Cascades of Column pia, April
%, 1856.
For The part he took ia the settlement 81
the Indian troubles in Oregon, Sheridan
was very warmly eIlogized BY Gen, Scott.
then General-in-chief Of the army. Just
after the breaking out Of the rebellion he
was made Captain in the 18th Infantry. and
served Tor several months in st. Louis as
President of Military Commission con-
venec at that place. In Decem her, 1861,
he was made Qnarternaster Of the Army
OF the Southwest, then operating in south
ern Missouri, and afterwards in Arkansas
under Gen. Samuel r. Curtis. He re-
manned with that army until after the bat.
tie OF Pea Ridge, in the spring of 1862,
when he was appointed Chief Qnartermas-
ter on the staff OF Gen. Halleck. then in
command of the army before Corinth.
In May, 1852, he was offered and accept
tkNe nae u - ~ O.
Cavalry, and from this time he was in his
proper element, and his great merits as q
soldier in active field service were rapidly
developed. Three days after he assumed
command May 30) he fought and defeated
q considerable body of rebel cavalry near
Corinth. In eleven days after this he was
entrusted with the command of brigade
OF cavalry, and on the lst Of July he vim
olcated the choice Of his commander BY
fighting and defeating rebel cavalry force
OF nine regiments under the notorious
Chalmers. This action was so brilliant
that It won for him the star Of brigadier.
Thus in one month he won his way bv
sheer force Of active and meritorious SER
vice, from the rank of major to that OF gen.
eral officer. In September Of the same
year ne was given the command Of the
Third Division Of the Army of he Ohio,
then operating under Buell. in htucky.
He fought ais brigade with distinguished
gailantry and success in the severe battle
OF Fe,ryville, in October of that year, and
again, with still greater distinction, under
Gen. hOsecrans, in thevictorious Murfrees-
boy0 campaign in December 1862, and jan
uary, 1868. His services at this time were
81 such distinguished merit that ne was
made Major General, to date from De-
cember 81, 1867. From that time on his ca
reer IN the Tullahoma, Chattanooga and
Chicamauga campaigns Of Gen. Rosecrans,
In the Chattanooga and Mission Ridge
campaign with Gen. Grant, and in the
great campaign of the Army Of the Poto-
mae, commencing in May, 1864, all the
time as mos. accomplished and success
iul General OF corps OF cavalry, is still 80
fresh In the memory of the people as to
render more particular mention unneces-
sary.
His dashing expedition to the rear OF the
rebel lines bear the Wilderness, in Nav
last; his destructive foray on the Virginia
Central Railroad, in June, and his almost
ubiquitous operations against the enemy,
with the splendid cavalry he had imbued
with his own soldierly spirit, made him
the terror of Lees army in the early months
Of the camprigD.
In all his various employments, whether
as subaltern IN an Indian campaign, in
the difficult executive duties Of the Quar-
ternaster's office, as the Colonel of cav
airy regiment, as the General of an infant
~ regiment, as the General of cavalry
corps, or in the higher and more RESPONSE
BILE position of commanding General Of an
Independent army in the field, Philip Hen
~ Sheridan, now Major General, and Brig
adler in the regular army by appointment.
has shown himself a most thorough and
accomplished soldier, and well deserving
Of the laurel wreath the victories of VIM
chester and Fishers Hill will cast upon his
brow.
hERoisM IN COMMON LIFE.-Common
lie is true and perfect sphere for heroism.
There are, in the life of every fa0ily,
things that are magnificent and worthy OF
poetry and history, and that will be chant
ed in the other life. There are things in
essentially heroic, connected with the con-
duct Of parents towards their children, ana
of the children towards their parents, and
OF the children towards each other They
are not famous, they are not wide-sphered;
but II you measure herOism by the moral
quality, by the motive, you will find era
die side heroism and bed side heroism,
are as eminent as any herosm that ever
was on the battlefield or in the council
chamber. Yes. and ten thousand times
more so, because they are accompanied
with less excitements and less prospects of
sympathy and remuneration. For in the
dull night, alone-Ob, alone! as the long
est striking Of the clock, alone a. its
shortes: stroke, alone; at its double stroke,
alone; at three and four in the morning,
alone; with U sick babe and no one to sue
cor, sits the child OF fortune, cultured ex-
quisite in taste and sensitive in every NOR
al feeling as an angel. At last the longed-
for sound, now hated, OF the footsteps OF
him for whom she waits, comes to her ear
and some miserable dissipated creature
wakes the night, and he comes, rude and
red and round, stumbling into the room
and she with every feeling narrowed, with
every taste offer ded, and her whole nature
outraged, revolts. Yet, it was the first
love, the only love, it was the husband OF
her youth, it was hers and she turns to
forget her revolving and her shrinking, to
meet him, to quiet him, te lead him to his
disgraceful bed, to put him to sleep, to