Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-06
General Sheridan's Career.

County, Sept. %, 1851, the year that Gen. Sheridan was born, and he graduated in tho class with him.
 General Sheridan's Career.
 Phillip Henry Sheridan was born aL Somerset, Perry County, O., March 0, 1851, of Irish percentage. He was a boy of active mind and body, and at the early age of five years could ride any horse in tho neighbor- hood with the skill of jockey.
 Little Phil had not much time for school. It was when hard at work as q hardware dealers clerk that he collected vast deal his mind that a military life was to ms taste, and he asprcd to become student at West Point Military Academy. His way of reaching the Academy was manly Congress for the district in which he lived, asking for the appointment, and he got 1t, at seventeen years Of age. A good but not one of the best scholars, far above medl- ocrity, but not at the top, he un- fortunately allowed his high spirit to lead him to fog cadet who in- suited him, and was set back a year in his graduation. At twenty-three he left the Military Academy, and on the border he was seasoned for the great work he was later called to perform WheH the war broke out he was First Lieutenant and when he was made Captaln, standing sixty fourth in the list, it was his reason able hope that he might win q MaJor' s commission before the war was over. In three years he was & Maj ajor-General In i've years more he was Lteutenant-General, and l fifteen years later he assumed the cem- mapd of the army in which he had been so brilliant and successful leader.
 1 When Gen. Sheridan entered the Military l Academy at West Point the Mexican war 1 had just ended, aud he came out just as the l troubles began i'll Kansas. From Kansas l disturbances reappeared where the Valley | of Virginia opens on the Potomac. Sheridan ! was sent all oyer the country, being In the l infantry service-to Washington IerfIto- | ry, to Texas, to Oregon. He was only a l lieutenant when the civil war began, and l was first put on the Quartermaster's and l Commissary service at St. Louis, and down l with Lyon in Southwest Missouri.
 | When Grant was selected by HallecR to 1 attack Fort DOnelson, Sheridan was Hal 1 leck's Quartermaster at headquarters. He l finally got volunteer regiment from Mich | igan and became its Colonel. Finally 1 he got command of a division ana was l Brigadier General of volunteers. When | Bragg invaded kcutuchy y Sheridan was one | of the generals who followed him back. lie l hadfought all over Tennessee when they l made him Malor-General of volunteers and | he suddenly came out and took part in the l big fights about Chattanooga and Chicka- ] mauCa. Grant now took him to the East. l He was ill the Wilderness fight, killed J ob 1 Stuart at Yellow Tavern, and after nght-
 ing many battles in Virginia, he was sent
 down to the grear valley, where he became
 the greatest of it's military commanders. l The war for while seemed transferred
 from the main army up to the valley where l Sheridan was.
 1 When the war closed General Sheridan l was appointed commander of the Division
 of the Southwest and later of the Division
 of the Gulf. In the latter part of 1867 he
 was put in charge of the Departments ot
 the Missouri, with headquarters at Fort l Leavenworth, and in March, 1869, he was
 appointed Lieutenant-G General, with head,
 quarters at Chicago. Early in 1875, poIiti.
 cal disturbances threatening Louisiana
 General Sheridan was for a few weeks sta
 toned in New Orleans, and his presence
 had a most wholesome effect. As an Indian
 fighter he was great success and foNnC
 his superior cavalry genius of the greatest
 value in chAAng the redskins out of tneil
 mountain retreats into the open field where 1 he could fight them,
 l Since Gen. Sheridan has been Comman
 der-in- Chief at Washington he has lived l quietly and mOGestly, but has devoted his l whole time to the army. Gen. Sheridan
 has not often worn the uniform of his rank l Occasionally he appeared at the head of 1 procession. as he did when he rode before
 the troops that escorted tue body of Logar
 to the tomb. Nearly every day m the year | he could be found, soon after 9 o'clock il
 the morning, in his office in the Wal | Department building. on Pennsylvania
 avenue. This office is a large square room
 on the main floor, with windows overlook
 ing Pennsylvania avenue to the north anc
 the White House grounds to the east. The
 Generals desk stood obliquely across the
 outermost corner, in such position tha
 as he sat behind 1t the light fell upon hi. back and upon the faces of all visitors tt
 the room. Two large cases filled witt
 curious pottery, Indian blankets, bows anc arrows, headgear, clubs and other articles
 collected in the Indian country before anC since the War of the Rebellion, stand at
 opposite sides Of tho apartment.
 Gen. Sheridan's residence on Rhode Isl
 and avenue is one of the hand somest ir I hot 1ts. OF hi y1frfrNN
 Gen. Sheridan is very cosy room, and it. bay-window, with its good view of the street, is favorite resort at receptions Within it stands pretty little mahogany
 table, covered with a large cloth of Ind iaT
 beadwork, and upon this are the picture.
 of the people whom the General prizet
 more than any others in tho world. They