The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1864-03-24
Msjor-General Philip II. sheridan.

dan, OF the Army of the Cumberland,
is native of Perry county Ohio, where
he first saw the light in 1881. In lS4e
he entered the West Point Military
Academy, graduating in June, 1853
and receiving his commission as brevel
Second Lieutenant within a month
afterwards. In the ensuing autumn he
joined his company in Texas, where
until the spring Of 1855, he was Ell.
gagged in active field duties against the
Indians. He was then promoted to q
full Second Lieutenancy in the 4th U.
S. infantry, and Joined his regiment in
Oregon. In May and June 1855, he
was in command of Fort Wood, in
New York harbor, and in July EN-
barked for San Francisco in charge OF
a body Of recruits. On arriving there
he was detailed to a command in the
escort of Surveying party sent GU: to
designate the route for proposed
branch of the Pacific Railroad from
San Francisco to the Columbia river
With this escort he remained until the
following September, when he was de.
tached at Vancouver, Washington
Territory, and ordered, with a detach.
ment of Dragons, to accompany Maj.
Raines' expedition against the Yakima
Indians. An engagement with the In
dams at the Cascades of the Columbia,
in April. 1856, caused his name to be
mentioned in general orders with spe-
cial recommendation for gallant con
duct. Early in the following year he
was ordered to the command Of the
Indian Reservation in the Coast Range
of Mountains, and in the spring of 1857
we find him complimcnted by the Gen
eral in chief for meritorlous conduct in
the settlement of the difficulty with the
Coquillo Indians, on Yakima Bay.
In 1861, March 14th, he received his
promotion to Captaincy in the 18th
U. S. Infantry, with orders to join his
regiment at Jefferson Barracks, St.
Louis, in the succeeding September.
Soon afterwards we find him acting as
President of Military Commission to
audit the claims arising from the ope-
rations of our army in Missouri, during
the summer of 1861. In the ensuing
December he was appointed Chief
Quartermaster and Commissary Of the
the Army of the Southwest, in which
position he organized the transporta-
ton and supplied the army with the
greater part of its subsistence until
after the battle of Pea Ridge. In
March, 1862, he was ordered to report
at ST. Louis; thence, in April, at Hal
leck's headquarters in front Of Corinth
AT the latter place, in Nay, he received
his appointment on Ualleck's staff as
Chief Quartermaster and Commissary.
This position he retained for seventeen
days, when he was appointed Colonel
of the 81 Michigan Cavalry, and or
dered with his regiment to accompany
the command of Colonel Elliott, to de-
stroy the Mobile and Ohio Railroad al
Boonville, Miss. After making a cir
cult of one hundred miles in the rear
of the enemy, then concentrated al
Corinth, the expedition burned the rail
road bridge at Boonville, captured and
destroyed large train, great quantity
of arms, and paroled 1000 prisoners
Since that period his gallant connec
ton with the great armies of the Ohio
and the Cumberland-in the latter O.
which the famous Division that bears
his name, is to well remembered by
every loyal heart to require detailed
recapitulation of its splendid triumph'
he continued intact and the rallyine
voice of the "Little Corporal in the
dark hour of battle, has the most in
spring effect upon all that hear it. o.
many bloody page of the history o
the great American rebellion his nam,
is emblazoned, in letters of gold, will
those of Perryville, Murfreesboro
Stone River, Chattanooga, Chicka
manga and Mission Ridge. The coun
try reveres his brilliant deeds, and til,
Major Generalship conferred upon hin
by the recommendation of Genera
Rosecrans, on the last day of 1862, wa
but just tribute for his gallant ant
meritous services.-C oicdgo Journal
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