Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-06-13
GENERAL SHERIDAN.

ing tributes from the leading generals
| of the old world as to his ability and
soldierly qualities. Little Phil" Wis
tied the headquarters staff of the Ger.
man army near Sedan, in 1870, during
the Franco Prussian war, and thus be-
came acquainted with the leading gen
erals OF the German army. What theil
opinions OF him are can be CLEANED from
the following extracts:
'sCount Won Moltke, chief of staff
expressed the following impression in
reference to General Sheridan: 4 have
always regarded Generals Grant, sher-
man and Lee as the representative types
Of the highest form Of modern strate-
gists, but General Sheridan struck me
as the type of thoroughly American
general, with all the wonderful energy
and fertility of resources that character
re the nation, and probably no better
cavalry commander has ever taken the
field. He was past master is 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 of cavalry"
General Won der Goltz said: L first
saw General 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. I
met him afterward at Versailles, shortly
before peace was declared, and remem-
Der his saying that had the German cav
airy been organized on the American
basis, all the French railways connect
ing General Faidherbe's army in tie
north and General Chanzy's army on
the Loire would have been totally de-
stroyed Immediately after, the isolation
of Paris. I consider General Sheridan
one of the ablest cavalry commanders in
the world"
General of Infantry Won Pape, who
commands the entire Prlssian garle-
comprising about $4,000 men
said that he had not met General Sheri-
dan personally, but that he had studied
carefully his campaign in Western Yir-
ginia, which lie considered to be a model
of the way in which large masses OF
cavalry should be handled in the war
fare of the future.
Major General Frederick Eugene,
prince of Hohenzollern, who commands
the Third brigade of cavalry of the
garde-corps, was found at the Officers
club, in PARSER Platz. Prince Freder-
lex said: I remember meeting General
Sheridan at Versailles. The late en-
peror often spoke of him as the man who
knew best how to make cavalry horses
do more work than any other cavalry
commander ever got out of them. I
recollect also that Emperor William
once told me to study Sheridan's West
Virginia campaign, as great deal of
Sheridsn's methods of destroying an
enemy's communications would some
day be very useful in a campaign in
Europe"
Lieutenant General Graf Won Wal
dersee, the quartermaster general of the
German army-who is married to rela-
tive of Robert E. Lee-holds a very
high estimate of General Sheridan as a
cavalry commander"
General Won Schlichting, who COM
mands brigade of the garde-corps,
said: Poor Sheridan! I remember
seeing him riding about at our head
quarters north of Paris in 1870. Re
was capital fellow and first-rate COM
mander'"
| General Boulanger, the celebrated
French general, says: 1.-THE judgment
personally formed Of him Yves that he
was most intellectual man and a most
competent soldier. I bad, of course
read the history of all he had done dur
ing the war, but the impression lef
upon my mind, as that OF one soldier
| Judging another, was that he must be {
most clever officer and possess a very
large degree Of what we call in our Ian
guage, un superb coup d'oeil du terrain
I was very much pleased to notice thu
steps taken by the American govern
fment to confer upon him an honor hi
had SO Justly deserved. The America,
government certainly shows it apprecia
ton of good SERVICE" concluded tn,
general, with slight tinge of sarcasm
and bitterness.
Far ahead of any of the above come
the voice of Americas greatest soldier
The man who had the most to do witt
Sheridan, and the man who ought t.
have most thoroughly known him. Gen
eral Grant said: 1.-THE first time re
member seeing Sheridan was when b
was captain and acting quartermaste
and commissary at Halleck's head
quarters in the march to Corinth Fl
| was then appointed to the colonelcy Of