, 1864-08-05
General Sheridan.


Major General Philip Henry Sheridan, COM
mander of the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the
Potomac, was born Of Irish parentage in Perry
county, Ohio, in 1881. He was appointed to a
Cadetship in lS48, and graduated there in June,
1853 In the same year he was appointed Bre-
vet Second Lieutenant in the First United States
Infantry, and ordered to duty at Fort Duncan,
Texas where he remained about two years. Ear
ly in 1855 he was promoted to Second Lieu
tenancy in the Fourth United States Infantry
| In July of that year he went to California in
charge of body of recruits, and was appointed
| ted to the command of the escort of Lieut.. Will
| hanson, engaged in surveying route for pro-
posed branch of the Pacific Railroad from San
Francisco to the Columbia river Oregon De-
tached at Vancouver's Island, in September, 1855,
he was assigned to the command of a body Dra-
| goons which accompanied Major Raine s expedi-
ton against the Yakima Indians. Inan engage
ment with them, April 28th, 1856 Lieut.. Sheri-
dan acquitted himself so CALAMITY as to be men
toned in general orders In May, 1856, he was
in command of the Indian Reservation in the
| Coast Range of mountains. In 1857 he received
the compliments of General Scott, then Comman-
der in Chief for bringing about the adjustment
of difficulty with the Coquille Indians. Later
in The same year he erected military post at
| Yamhill, on the Indian Reservation.
On the l4th of March, 1861, he was promoted
to a Captaincy in the Thirteenth Infantry, and
J from that position gradually advanced until
uhS he b "ame commander of the
second 'S cor ,,i. Brg., ,. we'd w3}iiyision, Army
antry in some Of the heaviest engagements' "a i
he Southwest. In July, 1862, he defeated the |
.ebel Generl,l Chalmers before COrinth, and was |
It once promoted to the grade of Brigadier Cen
,ral, and given a stronger command; being as
signed in October of that year. to the command |
,f the Eleventh Division ofthe Army of the Ohio,
General Buell. in his advance |
lpon Bragg, and participating in the battle OF
Perryville, where he held the key of the Federal
position, and repulsed two desperate charges of
,he rebels General Sheridan was in command
Of division at the battle of Stone River, and
himself in most remarkable man |
ner for which, on the special recommendation
Of General Rosecrans, he was made Major
General, December 3lst, 1862, his appointment
receiving the confirmation of the Senate, March, !
1868. In the battles of Chickamauga and Mis-
sion Ridge he won fresh laurels; and in hispres-
ent position he will, no doubt, maintain his
already exalted reputation.
General Sheridan is under medium height,
but is robusty built and is full of life and ener-
gy He knows more about the various fields OF
action than any one of his associates
Like the lamented Kearney he makes all his
leading reconnoissances in person, lie informs
himself thoroughly on all the Typographical fea-
rures of the hostile country through which he
marches, and all the resources of the enemy.
He is never taken by surprise. The wants OF
his soldiers are always amply provided for
Hence. wherever he leads, his men sure to
follow, confident alike in his courage in his dis
cretion, and his sympathy in all their needs.