Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-08-13
Philip Henry Sheridan

General Sheridan died at NonQuit,
Mass, Sunday night, August 3. Up
to half-past nine o'clock in the even
ing there had been no warning of
the coming crisis. His symptoms
had continued favorable and his fam
lily and physicians were in hopeful
spirits. Suddenly, however, signs
of the dreaded heart failure reap
peared. The remedies which had
proved successful in previous attacks
were unavailing. The general of
the army gradually sank into uncon-
sciousness, and at twenty minutes
past ten o'clock another of the IL
lustrious trio of Union commanders
had joined the great host of COM
rades beyond the grave.
Philip Henry Sheridan was an IL
lustration of dauntless courage and
rare strategic skill. Manifesting
these military qualities in a degree
seldom equalled, he was much more
than their simple representative.
He was a generous-hearted man; a
sincere lover of the country which
raised him from an Irish cabin to
a position among the nation'sPupils
and he did work in the war against
rebellion which no other man could
do as well-certainly no other man
gave promise of doing it. His name
is inseparably connected with many
of the greatest battles at both the
East and West, closing with that
brilliant dash at Appomattox Court
house in April, 1868. which threw
down the last barriers of the rebel
lion. His famous twenty-miles' ride
in the Shenandoah Valley and con-
version of a panic stricken host into
victorious army will live as long as
the memory of our public survives
He was full of the mercurial magnet
ism of his race, yet as firm as rocE
when the exigency required. He
was one of those commanders who
generally found his men willing tt
accompany a forlorn hope because
thev always found him ready tt
lead it. OF stalwart form-ont
of those men who seem to have
been created on gigantic proportion;
and then compressed, as in lemon
squeezer, until every fibre and mus
Gle was hard and compact as iron
General Sheridan appeared destined
for long life. AS the sequel has
shown, his fearful exertions during
the war must have undermined hi
constitution. He has passed ava.
in what would be the full prime o
many men, at the age of fifty-seven
and has surrendered to the enemy
who sooner or later must conque
us all.
He was born in Perry county
Ohio, in 1881, and was the son O
humble emigrants from Ireland. Hi
friends secured for him an appoint
ment at West Point, and, as in Gener
al Grants case, the nation was niue
more than repaid by its protege
, General Sheridan succeeded, Novem
Der 1, 1888, General Sherman as gen
eral-in-chief of the army, and had jus
returned from long journey to tn
, West when he was overtaken
l disease. He was married to CHI
: cago lady, who survives HIM. an
= has, we believe, left children. Re
ligiously, he was a member of th
Church of Rome, but we have neve
learned that he was specially devor
| in his allegiance Few men will
) longer remembered, or, at the
| death, be more sincerely and gel
orally mourned.
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