Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-18
A STATUE TO SHERIDAN.
Admirers of Great Cavalry Leader to
Place Memorial in Chicago.


The project of the Irish fellowship
club to erect, in Chicago, statue of
Gen. Sheridan meets the warm ap-
proval of thousands of admirers of the
great cavalry leader. Men of both the
western and the eastern armies of the
civil war remember, with especial ad-
miration, this intrepid and irresistible
commander.
Gen. Sheridan, graduating from
West Point, was assigned to the First
United States infantry as brevet Sec
ond lieutenant in 1853. His first cav
airy service was as colonel of the Sec
ond Michigan cavalry, in May, 1862
He was appointed on the 25th, and
three days later he was off on one of
his raids. May 80 he was out after
the enemy on it's retreat from Corinth
From this time his brilliant record
grew, until, at the close of the war,
he was one of the nations popular
idols.
After peace came, Gen. Sheridan
made his home in Chicago for some
years. Here he married, and here his
children were born. He was famous
when he came here, and residence
among us made him beloved for his
stalwart manhood and honest, out
spoken character.
l remember the day when this great
soldier led the inspiring civic and
military procession which greeted his
old commander, Gen. Grant, after his
journey round the world, writes Ada
c. Sweet in Chicago Journal. Sheri-
dan rode one of theose black horses
which he always chose when he could
select his mount. In full uniform,
alone, many yards in advance of the
procession, he came, his military cloak
flung back, everything in his face and
figure expressing the pride and pleas
ure he felt in the occasion. His mag
nificent bearing won applause all
along the line of march. His already
great personal popularity was in
creased by the moment.
1t would be splendid thing If art
could give us a permanent memorial
of Gen. Sheridan as he looked that
day, as he rode through the city on
his war charger.
Poetry has celebrated Sheridan in a
way that tells. Probably more people
know something of Sheridan through
"Sheridan's Ride" than through the
pages of history. Happy is the war
rior whose deeds are the theme of
poets, for, as the proverb has it,
Words are the only things which
last forever" They must be true
words, though, and fifty spoken" to
insure Immortality. 1t is we'll to have
figures of stone and bronze as well.
Here is bit from "Conniston," the
novel of Winston Churchill, and every
one of the remnant of the army In
blue will like to read the pen picture
of Sheridan in action. In an unex-
pected talk with President Grant, in
Washington, Sergt. Ephriam Prescott
describes, to his old commander, an
incident of the battle of Five Forks:
81 call that day to mind as If 1t were
yesterday. l remember how the boys
yelled when they told us we were go
ing to Sheridan. We got started about
daylight, and it took us until about
four in the afternoon to get into posi-
ton. The woods were just comm
little green, and the white dogwoods
were bloomin' round. Sheridan he
galloped up the line with that black
horse of his'n and hollered out, Come
on, boys; go in at clean jump, or you
won't ketch one of emf You know
how men, even veterans like the Fifth
corps, have to be, sometimes, pushed
into a fight.
There was a man from a Maine
regiment got shot in the head the fust
thing. I'm killed. said he. oh, no,
you're not says Sheridan. Pick up
your gun and go for 'em. But he was
killed. Well, we went for 'em through
all the swamps and briars and every.
thing, and Sheridan, thar in front, was
rushin' round and swearin', and
prayin', and shoutin', and the first
thing we knowed he'd jumped his
horse clean over the log works and
landed right on top of the Johnnies.'
YES said the president, that was
Sheridan.