The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-09-24
PHIL SHERIDAN,
His "Reminiscences Stirred bysas Wsr :
Drama.

sionary Ridge panorama a little ate,
10 o'clocky says the Chicago News
when a stout citizen clad in q rrav
travelling suit sauntered up to thebor
office. A moment after a slight. a..
tive man emerged from the wire door
and-"Gen. Shsridan, you are lust IN.
msn l am glad to seet" Hello, old
man; hello, Davis, are you here7
Welr'--and off they started toward
the new diorama just finished and
opened-the battle among the clouds.
Fighting Joe Hooker's Lookout
mountsin.
The general was interested in the
dioramS. But his mind seemed
to be busy, and his thoughts
were evidently at work on some
other subject than the grand painting
before him. Presently the general
turned and moved toward the stair.
way leading to the platform on the
principal exhibition-the panorama
of Missionary Ridge. Mr. Webster
tells me that this is Gen. Sheridan's
third visit. On the two previous oc-
~casions he was accompanied by Col.
Sheridan and his wife. OTrthese occa-
sions the platform was crowded and
the general quickly recognized. This
recognition embarrassed him and
fastened his departure. On the pres
ent occasion the platform was nearly
empty, and the general, as he. looked
thoughtfully down on the scene, spoke
freely OF this and other battles, OF the
unhappy necessity which could force
men into such situations as we here
saw.
This sort of thing" said he, SIS
not nice. There is not one comfort
able thing about it. Look this field
over. My loss that day in the old I'd
division was afearful one. Over ], 800
men, brave, gallant fellows, leds by Of
ficers who did their duty, were lost in
the old I'd division in a time sonshort
that it seems incredible that we could
have compassed the distance and car
ried the crest.
II have often thought we should
have captured Bragg, and / think it
was q close thing as it vas If Icould
have got Granger TO push a little
there, after / got them over that Sec
ond crest you see there in Chickamauga
valley, we should have captured some
thing more than rations at that Chica-
manga station. By the way" con
tinued the general, "you know my
men didn't have the chance to get re.
ported dead after a fight that they had
kept out of had taken place, for i had
the name of every man who was either
killed or wounded, and my men knew
that they were being looked after.
~ never did like to see men skuik
out of q fight when the skirm-
ishers were pushing in and the
line dressed up and following close
after. You remember that lesson ]
gave those fellows up in Tennessee? /
saw several officers dropping out leav-
ing their companies to go into the
fight, while they hunted safety. Thad
those fellows picked up the day after,
formed the division IN hollow square,
the skulkers for a centrepiece. They
didn't know what was oingto happen
to them. You know / am not much
on making speeches-in fact, | never
was. Bat what | told those men that
day was clearly understood by every
man In the division. / told them that
/ would not disgrace one of the brave
soldiers of my division by asking him
to receive the swords of such COW
ardly whelps; and while / did not like
the idea OF inficting unmerited1cruelty
on the colored race. that Ishould,
nevertheless, ask my negro servant il
he would take those swords away
from those things standing out there.
Possibly" said the general, reflect
lively, 'this may have had something
to do with my loss OF officers at Mis-
sionary Ridge"
"There is nothing nice about
war;" said the general again,
.and, Davis. this scene before
us neither OF us will we see, either it
or any similar scene. War of that
day and war Of the present is, and
must be, a different thing from what
we have here. The advance in war
machinery. material and weapons Of
every description makes q different
mode Of warfare necessary. Armies
will not attack each other in the field
like this. An army must be dug out,
starved out or may be forced out by
position. AT all events, wemust have
one Of two things--either q long, to-
dious method, wearing alike on men
ard the impedimenta, or q rapid and
vigorous attack upon real property,
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