St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-07
reward OF HONOR.
Gen. Sheridan'S Fame In En-
rope Second to None
Other.
German Heroes Admire His
Handling Of Men and
Horses.
AS a Cavalryman, He Had
No Superior in Their
Minds.
Gen. Boulanger Pays a Glow
ing Tribute to His
Merits.

dangerous illness causes comment and
regret among the older officers Of the
German army, especially those who
knew him personally when Little
Philip visited the headquarters staff of
the German army near Sedan in 1870,
and subsequently accompanied it dur
ing the campaign to Paris.
Kaiser Friedrich, the moment he heard
of Sheridan's illness. expressed the
warmest sympathy, al led that the
gallant little generally all through
all right. To-day it is possible to make
public the opinions formed in regard to
Gen. Sheridan by Gen. Feldmarschall
Graf Won Moltke, chief of the
general staff; by Gen. der Cavallerie
Graf Won der Goltz, who commanded
the cavalry division of the guard during
the Franco-German war; by Gen.
der Infanterie Won Pape, commander of
the garde-corps of the Prussian army,
and by Mai. Gen. Friedrich Eugen,
Prince of Hohenzollern, who commands
the Third brigade of cavalry of the
garde-cOrpS. Count Won MOltke eX-
pressed the following impression i'll
reference to Gen. Sheridan: 81 have
always IcSdluSu ucllS' bldut, CHCluldu
and Lee as the representative types OF
the highest form of modern strategists,
but Gen. Sheridan struck me as the
type of thoroughly American general,
with all the wonderful energy and fer
tility of resources that characterize the
nation, and probably no better cavalry
commander has ever taken the field.
He was a 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 i'll the tactical use
of cavalry"
Gen. Won der Goltz said: 81 first saw
Gen. Sheridan in 1870, just after the
battle of Sedan, and was impressed by
the way in which he examined the
horses feet and the field farriers' FORCES
of the different cavalry regiments. l
met him afterward at Versailles, shortly
before peace was declared, and remem-
Der his saying that had the German
cavalry been organized on the Ameri
can basis, all the French railways con-
Meeting Gen. Fai6Ierbe'S army in the
North and Gen. Chanzy's army on the
Loire would have been totally destroyed
Immediately after the isolation of Paris.
l consider Gen. Sheridan one of the
ablest cavalry commanders in the
world"
General of Infantry Won Pape, who
commands the entire Prussian garde-
corps-comprising about thirty-fve
thousand men-Said that he had not
met Gen. Sheridan personally, but that
he had studied carefully his campaign
in Western Virginia, which he con-
sidered to be model of the way in
which large masses Of cavalry should
be handled in the warfare of the future.
Maj. Gen. Friedrich Eugen, Prince of
HohenZollern, who commands the Third
brigade of cavalry of the garde-corps,
Pariser platZ. Prince Frederick of
Hohenzollern is well built, soldierly
looking, and is about fOrty-five years of
age. He belongs to the Roman Catholic
branch of the HohenZollern family, and
during the Franco-German war was at
tached to the staff of Emperor William.
Prince Frederick said: Il remember
meeting Gen. Sheridan at Versailles.
The late emperor often spoke of him as
the man vino knew best how to make
cavalry horses do more work than any
other cavalry commander ever got out of
them. l recOllect also that Emperor
William once told me to study Sheridan's
West Virginia campaign, as great
deal of Sheridan's methods of destroy
ing an enemy'S communications would
some day be very useful in campaign
in Europe" Lieut.. Gen. Graf Won
Waldersee, the quartermaster general
of the German army-who is married to
relative of Gen. Robert E. Lee-holds
very high estimate of Gen. Sheridan
as cavalry commander. Gen. Won
Waldersee, who is regarded as the sue
cessor to Count Won Moltke, is now at
Metz with about twenty young staff
officers, making the annual staff tour of
inspection along the French frontier.
Gen. Sheridan was also spoken of in a
very complimentary way by the crown
prince at meeting of all the officers of
the Second brigade of infantry of the
garde-corps in the marble hall of the
Munchener Lowenbrau, where the
crown prince had invited them to beer
banquet after the close of the spring
maneuvers. The crown prince sat at
little wooden table between Gen. Won
Pape and Lieut.. Gen. Won Schlichting.
Gen. Sheridan'S illness was spoken of,
and Gen. Won Schlichting, who also
commands brigade of the garde-corps,
said: "POor Sheridan! | remember
seeing him riding about at our head
quarters north of Paris i'll 1870. He was
capital fellow and a first-rate cavalry