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Philip II. Sheridan.
voice was strong, he took full nourishmen
and slept occasionally as usual and thu
doctors and family were in hopeful spirits
When the first bad symptoms appeared
at $50 O'Clock Drx Matthewsand O'Reilly
who were in attendance, applied the rem
edies which had been effective in former
attacks but they had nc effect and tn
General gradually sank into complete un'
consciousness ending i'm the quiet cessation
Of life at 1870 p. M. Mrs. Sheridan, thu
Sisters NOLAN and Justinian and body
servant Klein were present daring the Gen
erals last moments.
The illness which has Just resulted in
General Sheridan's death commenced May
Il, Immediately after his return from q
tour of inspection out West. He com
planned Of feeling unwell and worn out but
went to his office each day for about a week.
He was then forced to remain indoors, and
Tuesday, May g, he had q severe ATTACK
of heart failure, which greatly alarmed
his family and physicians.
EURu
Philip Henry Sheridan. General OF the United
States army, born in Somerset. Penv County,
o.. March 8, 1881. A few yeaR At the village
school. followed by service in the village store.
furnished his education and training until q
fortunate application to the Congressman OF
his district made him. in lStd. q cadet at West
Point. He should have been graduated in 49,,
but q years suspension. the result of . quarrel
with o fellow student. transferred him TO the
class Of lSSa in which he ranked thirty fourth
among its ffty-swo members. He was ap-
pointed . brevet Second Lieutenant of infantry,
July /, 1873: in the following year was as
signed TO the First infantry, in Texas;
aud on November p. 1854 received his COM
mission as Second Lieutenant Of the Fourth
infantry. With the latter regiment he served
during the next six years. in Washington Ter
ritory and Oregon. In one OF General ScOtt's
orders We ind this mention Of him: April p.
1854. Brevet Lieutenant Colonel E. j. Steptoe.
Ninth infantry, commanding companies A, e,
F, land same regiment. and detachments Of
Company f, First dragons, and Company L.
Third artill-ry, in all aO men. at the Cascades,
W. T., repulsed the Indians in their attack at
that place. The troops Landed under fire, rOut.
ing and dispensing the enemy ut every point.
Second Lieutenant i'hilip b
Sheridan, Fourth infantry, is especially men
toned for his gallantry."
The outbreak u the civil war made pr0mO-
ton RAPID. both through the resignation Of
Southern officers and the creation OF new regi-
ments; and Sheridan who thus secured . First
in the Fourth infantry on March
!, 1851. received . Captiancy In the Thirteenth
On May II. Still. save for six weeks service as
president Of . board OF auditing claims At St.
Louis. that memorable gear brought him listle
and no laurela The day before
he va appointed Quarter
on the stan Of General Curtis
the army Of Southvest Missouri.
being relieved from Curtis stan. he report
to General Halleck. hon be accompanied
in his advance upon Corinth, and WIS D. him
u the Governor Of Michigan,
who had applied for some regular oficer TO take
charge Of The Second Michigan cavalry. Com
May 3, 1885,. as Colonel Of this regi-
then near Corinth. Sheridan as once took
part with IL in Eliotts raid against the rail-
road. which vas destroyed at Bonneville. Dur
June he commanded the Second cavalry
brigade in several skirmishea and on July !
fought . brilliant battle at Bonneville. His
- Brigadier General Of volunteers
was dated from the action at Bonneville.
During the autumn of 1872 Sheridan was
transferred to Kentucky, and there received
of the Eleventh division Of the Army
Of the Ohio. unde: Buell.. Moving OUT from
Louisville with Buell. against Bragg. he took
part, October =, IN the hard-s0ught battle 1t
Perryville, where he maneuvered hts division
conspicuous skin and effect Rosecrans
Buell. in command Of what became
as the Army Of the CUMBERLAND, and at
the prolonged and bloody battle Of Murifees-
boro, Sheridan. for several hours in tho first
dz5's fighting. held the key point, displaying
superb tactic ! skill and the greatest CALAMITY.
All his brigade commanders were killed in this
battle, and. on ROsecrans' recommendation he
was made Maj0r-General Of volunteers, TO date
from December 81. 1867. the opening Of that
deadly struggle among the cedar brakes Of
Stone river.
suit Of Van Dorm 70 Columbia and Franklin.
with ROsecrSns' army from Murfreesboro 10
TullabOma, and across the Cumberland noun
tains and the Tennessee. Sheridan, on SOFTEN
Der 10 anil "a. distinguished himself again in the
battle with Bragg At Chickamauga, Rosecrans
Tell back to Chattanooga and the command Of
his besieged army was transferred 70 Thomas.
Grant. arriving with reinforcenonts from
V~icSsburX.. resolved to dislodee Bragg,
Eho was posted on Lookout mountain, and
Missionary Ridge. Hooker having carvted
mountain, Thomas assaulted the Ridge !
November IS, with overwhelming success
5heridal's division was the first to cross the
rest, and pressed the enenv's rear guard until
ong after dark, capturing wagons and artillery. |
This was the eliminating point Of Snefidan's
eareer At the West. although he continued 70
.erve through the winter in East Tennessee,
md on January !. was engaged In . skirmish as
cambridge.
In the spring Of 1854, Grant, now Lieutenant |
established h,s headquarters in Vir- |
sinia. He told Halleck he mustnaye an ener- !
commander for the cavalry there, and
aalleck. mindful Of the result Of his former 4
ec 'mmendati0n. brought Sheridan forward
lgain. The very man" answered Grant, and, !
accordingly, Sheridan, on April 4, took rom
nand OF the cavalry corps OF the Army Of the |
Potomac. When the May campaign OF this
.rmy opened, he pioneered its path to the |
Wilderness, and thence to SpottsyNania. |
diminishing or the 5th and 9Th, and |
a battle at Todd's Cavern on the |
III. Two days later he made a cavalry expe- |
lition within the enemy's lines to the Chicka- !
:Oininy and the James. dashing upon the out |
FORKS Of Richmond itself. where he took 10