, 1888-06-14
GENERAL SHERIDAN.
THE ESTIMATE PLACED UPON OUR GREAT
LEADER BY EUROPEAN OFFICERS.

LEADER BY EUROPEAN OFFICERS.
The New York Herald, by far the
leading journal of the country in the
matter OF foreign news, presents the
following statements from the great
military leaders Of Germany concern
ing our dying favorite:
General Sheridan's illness causes
comment and regret among the older
officers OF the Germanarmy, especially
those who knew him when "Little
Phil' visited the headquarters staff OF
the German army near Sedan in 1871,
and subsequently accompanied it dur
ing the campaign to Paris.
AS already cabled you, Kaiser Freid-
rich, the moment he heard OF Sheri-
dams illness, expressed his warmest
sympathy, and hoped that the gallant
little general would pull through all
right.
INTERVIEWS WITH GENERALS.
To-day | am enabled-thanks to
the courtesy of general officer who
was for many years one OF the general
adiutanten Of the Emperor William
to make public the opinions formed
in regard to General Sheridan by
General Field-marshali Graf Won
Moltke, chief of the general staff: by
General der Cavallerie Graf von der
Goltz, who commanded the cavalry
division of the guard during the
franco. German war; by General der
nianteriee Won Pape, commander OF
the garde.corps OF the Prussian army,
and by Major General Frederick En-
gen, Prince of Hohenzollern, who
commands the third brigade of cav
airy of the grade.corps.
Won MoLTKE's woRKRooM.
General Field Marshal Won Moltke
lives in the large red Brick general
staff building in the Thiergarten.
The windows OF his study face the
large guilt column OF Victory, made
OF cannon captured in the last war
1t was in this study that ! was re-
ceived by the first OF living strategists,
shortly after two o'clock, just as he
had finished reading the reports OF
his adjutants. The room is small
one and the walls are covered with
book cases filled with military books
and large folios, apparently contain
ing maps.
Won MoLTKE's OPINION.
"I have always regarded Generals
Grant, Sherman and Lee as the repre-
sentative types of the highest form of
modern strategists, but General Sheri-
dan struck me as the type of thor
oaghly American general, with all the
wonderful energy and fertility of re.
sources that characterize the nation,
and probably no better cavalry COM
mander has ever taken the field. He
was past master in using horses for
all they are worth, and all the armies
OF Europe have adopted many of the
lessons taught by him in the tactical
use ofcavalry."
COUNT Won DER GoLTZ VISITED.
Inext called upon General of Caval.
ry Count Won der Goftz, who has /,
pied terre in Berlin at the Officers
club on the Pariser Platz. Count voa
der Goltz is the ideal of beau sabreur
He is now about seventy years old, is
of medium height, is strongly built
and has keen flashing eyes and a long
snow white moustache. He wears the
dark blue and gold uniform OF the
Seventh Kings Hussars.
General Won der Goltz said II first
saw General Sheridan in 1870, Just
after the battle of Sedan, and was i'm
pressed by the way in which he exam
ined the horses feet and the field
farriers' forges of the different cav
ally regiments. met him afterward
at Versailles, shortly before peace was
declared, and remember his saying
that had the German cavalry been
organized on the American basis, all
the French railways connecting Gen.
eral Faidherbe's army in the North
and General Chanzy's army on the
Loire would haye been totally de.
stroyed Immediately after the isolation
of Paris. consider General Sheridan
one OF the ablest cavalry commanders
in the world"
Prince Frederick said IL remember
meeting General Sheridan at Yer
sailles. The late emperor often spoke
OF him as the man who knew best how
TO make cavalry horses do more work
than any other cavalry com mander
ever got out OF them. | recollect also
that the Emperor William once told
me TO study Sheridan's West Virginia
campaign, as a great deal OF Sheridan y
methods OF destroying an enemy's
communication would some day be
very useful in IL campaign in Europe" !"
The illness of General Sheridan
naturally causes much sympathy here
among his French friends and admir-
ers General Boulanger, who is now
definitely fixed up in his new hotel in
the Rue Dumont d'Urville, received a
Herald reporter yesterday.
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