The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-06-29

slider sufficient attention had been paid letter was sent
from his office, rather ndecorousy auding to thsip CON
nection with the order and claiming that he Was moi
"ayhawker" On this letter he relieved and ordered
to ST. Louis The necessities of the campaign reauired
General CURTIS to be suppied the kindness and charity
of Captain SHERIDAN made him regard IL otherwise "a
well the fact that he, like many other officers Of the
Regular Army, favored policy Of dealing gently with
the inhabitants OF our maynard sister" States, which
his subsequent experience has effectually changed
AT this time SHERIDAN held the views of the war com
to the majority of the officers in the Regular Army
His professional surroundings had not made him hostile
to slavery to say the least He was Democrat in A
partisan sense though not in the ruo spirit of the term
To him antislavery reprehensibe than the op
posite and If had had the settlement OF the war then
it would have been among the first Of his movements
order the execution OF an equal number OF "Norther
fanatics and Southern reeators the phrase used
go in those days War waged for righteous ends and
living verites is always educator Men swiftly
when life and liberty hang in the balance As the
OF lifetime flash like vivid panorama upon the
tary consciousness of drowning falling man. do til,
primal truths or sehoods ofdogmas and convictions be
apparent to the really earnest who steps
the martial We wager the assertion that
DAMS democracy is of much truer type than it
four years since Not let it be understood that he
marked obtrusve in the expression of views that IL
any way opinions were Extensively expressed STILL sucf
was the impression of his views left observer.
After returning to st. Louis SHERIDAN sent to Wis
copsn to purchase horses. That duty accomplished he
made Chief Quarermastcr of the Army under Genera
Hsleck, before Cornh. The writer met himhere again
and found him grown to the full measure of his ami
was placed az
head of cavalry regiment the Second Michigan and thu
most dashing cavalier yet found leshed his "maden'
sabre in the famous expedition under Colonel Elliott
sent to destroy the Mobile and Ohio Railroad at Boone
vlle Mississippi thirty miles south of Cornh 1t will b.
remembered great success, resulting in the capture
and destruction of large train, the tearing up Of thu
track and the capture Of two thousand prisoners SHERI
DAN showed the qualities which have since made him il
ustrous. He was foremost In all the daring cavalry
movements following Immediately upon the evacuation
of Corinth-movements which for the first time showed
the superiority of our cavalry. In less than month
SHERIDAN was command of the Second brigade of the
Cavalry Division of the Army ofthe Mississippi consisting
of his regiment and the Second Iowa Cavalry. This
was on the 18th of June On the lst Of July he most gal
sntly his brgaders star within six weeks of the
date Of taking command Of his regiment
We need give no account of the affair
at Bonneville, where SHERIDAN first
gained a considerable prominence as a
cavalry leader, or of his subsequent
achievements. We will add, however,
a short description of his personal ap.
pearance and character:--.
sHAsIpAs is barely five feet six inches in height Hi
body stout; his lower limbs rather short He is VIVA
would be called stock in horse Jockey phraseology
Deep and broad IN the chest copaerand firm in muscle
active and vigorous in motion, there not pound o
superfuous flesh on his losy Of the time we write Hi
balanced, and covered with full crop OF close curtin,
dark hair His forehead moderately high but quit
broad perceptves well developed high cheek bones darl
beard closely covering square lower jaw and rm-linel
mouth clear dark eyes which were of the most knll,
character completed the tout ensemble memory gives a
the call Always neat in person. and generally dressed il
uniform, Captain SHERIDAN looked as he wasa quiet
assuming, but determined officer and gentleman who's
modesty would always have been barrier to great
nown had not the golden gates Of opportunity been
barred for his passage.