The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-06
Selections.

Phil. SHERIDAk's PERsoNELLE.-The
following striking personal sketch of Gen
Phil. Sheridan we take from the Washing
ton correspondence of the New York Citi-
zen
Gen. Phil. Sheridan is here-the rage of
receptions. the boaG stJrenr of soirees, the
lion of society, the envied of men, and the
adored of women. A Murat by military
reputation, Gen. Phil. is Napoleon the
First in appearances-but Napoleon OF
the intensely American type.
A Napoleon W ho was fed on hog and hom-
my IN his youth, instead of maccaronl and
becafcoes; who takes blue pill when his di-
gestion is out of order, instead of barley CRU
el and fasting; who is more familiar with
champagne than with eau sucre; and who,
as between cafe noir and old commissary,'
might possibly, under certain circumstances
such as long march and very wet
night-prefcr the latter more vulgar stimu-
liant.
Gen. Sheridan's appearance is exceeding
ly remarkable. In height he is not many
inches over five feet-about Napoleon's size
and his face is Napoleonic, though rather
animal in his type beyond the average of
likeness. He has the dark eyes, dark hair
closely cropped, brunette complexion, oval
contour, classical features, square jaws pro
minent check bones, straightly compressed
mouth, compact and mathematical forehead,
which we see in the earliest pictures of the
first French consul.
Like Napoleon, also, his neck is very short,
bringing his head well down between his
shoulders large conlcal mushroom without
a stem, and the striking or peculiarity of his
appearance, is the length of his body and
arms contrasted with the shortncss of his
legs-these latter terminating Get me add
in justice) with exquisite little feet, high in
the instcp and tapering in the toes, which
might be shown off to advantage III ladies'
number twos, the material either pink satin
or bronzed calf, and with pink or blue roset-
ties at the bottom of the instcp.
You want to know what Phil. Sheridan
is like 2" said President Lincoln once to Un-
Gle Gideon Welles, who was asking in his
dreamy way what manner of man was the
young Western sabreur, whose name it was
just then beginning to attract attention.
He is brown little fellow with long body,
short legs, not enough neck to hang him,
and such long arms that he can scratch his
ankles, it they itch, without STOPPING. No
better description could be given, in such
brief language, of Gen. Phifs. externals, ex-
cept by adding his face is intensely Irish, of
the Southwestern or Tipperary type, with
udSu VI CpdHIou IHoo hAS ShiiiS
NAL as lovers welcome, and that his head,
proving its good balance, is less turned hy
the fattering attention which everywhere
meets him than ever before was the head OF
any bearded and bifurcated animal with a
Mlesian current in his veins-the word
bearded reminding me that l should have
described his olive and oval face as decorat
ed with simple dark brown moustache and
imperial, not having the ends elongated and
waxed in what may differently be called the
Victor Emanuel or Joe Corlies style. At ta-
bic, or on horseback, Gen. Sheridan appears
to be man of the ordinary height, and with
powerful frame. 1t is only when on foot
that we notice he was intended for Cen
taur-the mans body joined to horses
neck-by the shortness of his lower extremi-
ties.