The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-06
PHIL SHERIDAN.
His "Reminiscences Stirred by a War
Panorama. &.

The late visitors were leaving Mis-
sionary Ridge panorama a little after
10 O'Clock. says the Chicago Ne'rs, when
a stout citizen clad in gray travelling
suit sauntered up to the box Office. A
mement after slight, active man en-
erRed from the wire door and-"Gen.
Sheridan. you are Just the man l ani
glad to seel" Hello. old man; hello,
Davis, are you herel Well"--and
of they started toward the new did,
rama just finished and opened-the bat
tie among the clouds. Fighting Joe
Hooker's Lookout mountain.
The general was interested in the
diorama. But his mind seemed to be
busy, and his thoughts were evidently
at work on some other subject than
the grand painting before him. Pre-
sently the gederal turned and moved to-
ward the stairway leading 70 the plat
form on the principal exhibition-the
panorama of Missionary Ridge. Mr..
Webster tells me that this is Gen. Sheri-
dams third visit. On the two previous
occasions he was accompanied by Col.
Sheridan and his wife. On these occa-
sions the platform was crowded and the
/ u.
cognition embarrassed him and has
tened his departure. On the present &C
casion the platform was nearly empty.
and the general, as he looked thought
fully down on the scene, spoke freely OF
this and other battles, of the unhappy
necessity which could force men into
sucn situations as we here saw.
This sort Of thing" ssid he, lis not
nice. There Is not one comfortable
thing about IL. Look this field over.
Ny loss that day in the old second di-
vision was a fearful one. Over 1900
men, brave, gallant fellows, led by Off
GERS who did their duty, were lost in the
old second division In a time so short
that it seems incredible that we could
have comprised the distance and car
ried the crest.
81 have often thought We should have
captured Bragg, and I think il was a
close thing as it was. II 1 could have
got Granger to push little there, after
l got them over that second crest you
see there in Chickamauga Valley, we
should have captured something more
than rations at that Chicamauga sta
ton. By the way" continued the gen.
eral, you know my men didn't have
the chance 10 get reported dead after a
fight that they had kept out OF had
man who was either kIllrd or wounded,
and my men knew that they were being
looked after.
Il never did like to see men skulk out
OF q fight when the skirmishes were
pushing in and the line dressed up and
following close after. You remember
that lesson I gave those fellows up in
TENNESSEE l saw several officers drop
ping out, leaving their companions TO
go into the fight. while they hunted
safety. had those fellows picked up
tie daY after. foemed the division in .
hollow square the skulkers for q center
piece. They didn't know what was go
ing to happen TO them. You know
am not much on making speeches-in
fact, never was. But what l told
those men that day was clearly under
stood by every man in the division.
told them that would not disgrace one
OF the brave soldiers of nv division bv
asking him to receive the swords OF
such coTardly whelps; and while did
not like the idea of inhicting unmerited
cruelty on the colored race, that l
should, nevertheless, ask my regro SER
want 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 Mission
airy Ridge"
There is nothing nice about war"
said the general agaiD, land Davis, this
scene before Us neither of US will ever
see, either it or any similar scene. War
OF that day and war of the present is,
and mus. 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 OF may be forced out by position.
At all events, We must have one or two
things-e:ther a long, tedious method,
wearing alike on men and the impedi-
menta, 90 rapid and vigorous attack
upon real property, commerce, railroad,
steamboat. What is naval warfare?
Simply a war on commerce. Effective?
Very. Why not the same on land ?
There is little doubt that The horse must
play large part in future war than
anything we saw or knew of. And am
not sure but what thir is the humani-
tartan view.
I'VE should certainly save life, and
lives Of human beings should always be
preserved at the expense of real pro-
perty. / think am right in this, went
on the general, reAectIyely. Anything
that shortens war, stops the conflict, |
is desirable. OF course we should have
bitter fighting at points; that would be |
necessary. But q war to-day would be |
q new thing"