The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-03-01
General Sheridan's Horse.
Bhl Nye. in New York Mereur,

l have always taken grea, interest in war incidents. and more so. perhaps, be cause ~asn; old enough to pu, down the rebellion myself have been very eager 10 get hold of and hoard up m my memory all its gallant deeds of both sdes, and to know the history of those who figure iraminen,ly in that great eonfliet has been one of my ambitions.
 have also watched with interest the steady advancement of Phil Sheridan, the black eyed warrior with the tiorid ftee and the Winchester record. have also tsken some pains 10 investigate the late, history of the old Winchester war horse
 Old Renzi died in our stable few years afier the war. sad a Chicago iiy- e ' man 10 me short tune ago. Ger etal Sheridan lei, him with us and in- sructed us to take good caie ofhim. which we did, but he got old a, last, and his teeth failed upon him, and that busted his digestion. and he kind of died of old age. l reckon"
 '' How did General Sheridan take i, ?"
 "Oh. we'll, Phil Shefid m is no school girl. He didn't turn away when old Rl- ,nki died and weep the manager full 0. aiding regret. If you know Sheridan you know tha, he don'trip the blue dome 0, heaven wide open with unavaihng walls. sde just told Us te take care ui IS remalns, pa,ted the old cuss on the he, q llt,le and walked of. Phil Sheridan don't go around weeping softly into punk bordered wipe when d horse dies He likes good horse. lu; Rlenzi was 10 lay Eye-See fer swlf $, and he wasn', the horse kxs ,I means"
 Did you read lately now General Sheridan don'tlldc on horseback sinceh old war horse died. and seems to have los; all interest in horses:
 No. never did. He no de ubt would rather ride Tn a cable car or carriage than to )ar himself up on horse. That's al! likely enough. but. as say. he's matter of fact i,;le fighter from Fight. town. He never stopped to snort and paw up the ground and sob himself into bronchitis over old Rienz. He went rigi on about his business and like old King Nhats s-his-name he holleied for another hoss, and the war department never slip ped a cog.'
 Later on l read that the old war horse was called Winchester and that he was still alive in blue grass pasture in Ken lucky. The report said that old Win chester wasn | very coltish. and that he vas evidently failing. l gathered the idea that he was wearing store teeth and iha, his memory was little deficient, but ,ha, he might hve yet for years After ,ha, met New York livery stable prince. al whose palace General Sheridan's we'll known Winchester war horse died of boi,s in 7I. He told me all about II and how General Sheridan came on from Chicago at the time and held the old horses head in his lap while the fleet limbs that flew from Winchester down and saved the day s,iffened Tn the great mysterious repose of death. lie said Sheridan wept like child, and as he told the touching tale ,o me l wepi also. say weIt. ! wept about quart, would say. He said also tina, the horses name wasn't Wlnchesier nor R,enzi II was Jim.
 was sorry to know il. Jim is no name for war horse who won victory and marble bus, and poem. You car tres pect horse much if his name was Jim.
 After tha, l found ou, that General Sheridanis celebrated Winchester horse was raised in Kentucky, also in pennsyl- vania and Michigan ;>that he went ou, as volunteer private that he was in the regular service prior to the war. and that he was drafted. and that he died on the held of battle, in a sorrel pasture, in '73, in great pain, and on Governors Island thai he was buried with Masonic honors by the Gsod Templars and the Grand Army of the Republic: that he was resur- rected by medical college and disseci- cd that he was cremated in New Or leans and ,axidermed for the Military Museum at New York Every little while run up against new fact relative to this noted beast. He has died in nine different states, and been buried in ,hir- teen di:feren; styles. while his soul goes marching on. Evidently ~e live in an age of information. You can ge, more information nowadays, such as II is, than