Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-28

| stary pomp and splendor the heroic statue of General Philip Henry Sher- idan was unveiled in this city today. ! The president of the United States and members of the cabinet, the diplo- court of the United States, senators representatives in coasTsss, veterans | of the Civil war and many others
 prominent ia official life as we'll as a large concourse of citizens were present. Thousands of soldiers of the regular army and cf the national guard and United States marines and blue jackets from the navy were as sembled as a tribute to the dashing soldier of the Civil var whose effigy was displayed to the public gaze for the first time in this city today.
 The statue, the work of Gutzom
 Borgium was admired by everyone who saw it. It represents General Sheridan on horseback, his steed be- ing shown in a position of action rath. CT than standing piacidly as is the case with so many of the equestrian statues of this city.
 The statue is one and three quar- | ters times larger tran fife and de- l picts General Sheridan at the age al which he performed his greatest deeds. The pose is taken from the occasion when he returned to the field at the battle of Cedar Creek. He had been defeated by General Eariy and as he reins In hIs horse he turns to his men. waving hat in hand and shouts to them to turn back. He IS mounted on his celebrated horse Rienzi. The sum of $50.000 was ap. propriated by congress for the statue which is said to contain more molten brass than ever before cast in this country. The piece is 12 feet long
 s feet wide and as completed the en. 1 tire bronze piece is 14 feet in height | Especial interest was given she oc. l casion by the presence of the widow of the dashing soldier and her son, Lieutenant Phil Sheridan of the army. | The statue was unveiled by Mrs. Sheridan herself pulling the cord tuat held the dTapery in place.
 1 The statue is located in the most | fashionable residential section of the ! city, in what is known as Sheridan square at the intersection of Massa- chusetts avenue, Twenty-third and R | streets. It is surrounded by many splendid mansions and is on the line of one of the most popular drIve- ways of the city.
 The military parade was headed by General ! Franklin Bell, chief staff of I the army, with General William r. Duvall as his chief aide The Thir- l teenth cavalry, The Fourth battery of field artillery, the Seventeenth, Forty-fourth, FOTty-fifth and 1O4th coast artillery, companies E and II. of the United States engineers. bat teries D and E of the Third field ar | tillery, the Fifteenth cavalry, four companies of marines. two companies of blue jackets from the president s yacht, Mayfiower, and the Dolphin were in line, the United States ma | rine band rendering appropriate music. The second division. consist | cd of the District of Columbia mill l tia, composed of the First and Second | regiments of infantry, the First sep | arate battalion. the signal corps. the First battery field artillery, the naval battalion. the high school cadets, headed by the engineers band.
 The third division of the parade
 was composed of veteran societies of the Army of the Potomac, of the Cumberland, the Tennessee and the Ohio, whose members served under the famous soldier ia whose honor they were assembled
 President Roosevelt addressed the assemblage and pronounced a splen- did tribute to the valor of the mlIl- | tary genius of Sheridan. Horace Por- | ter, formerly ambassador to France, also spoke in honor of the soldier and ] patriot and told )f his daring deeds on the field of battle.
 The presidents speech follows: 1 It is eminently fitling that the na. | tion's illustrous men, the men who 1 loom as heroes before the eyes of our people, should be fttingly commend 1 rated here at the national capital and I am glad indeed to take part
 in the unveiling of this statue to Gen,
 eral Sheridan. His name will always i stand high on the list of American ! wOrthies. Not only was he a grea, general, but he showed his greatness
 with that touch of originality which
 we call genius. Indeed this quality of brilliance has been in one sense g
 disadvantage to his reputation. for fl
 has tended to oversbadow his soIic
 ability. We tend 10 think Of him oniy
 as the dashing cavalry leader, where
 as he was iB reality not only that, bui
 also great commander. Of course
 the fact in his career moet rea1aS
 recognized was his mastery in Ln, T necessarily modern art of handlinl masses of modern cavalry so as tt
 give them the fullest possible effect
 not only In the ordinary operations
 of cavalry which precede and follow
 q battle, but in the battle itself. Bu in addition he showed in the cfyf
 war that he was first class arm,
 commander, both as a subordinate O
 Grant and when in dependent in com
 mand. His record in the Valley cam paign. and again from Five Forks Ia
 Appomattox, is one difficult to par
 allel in military history. After tn,
 close of the great war, in a fiel,
 where there was seant glory to b,
 won by the general in chief, he ren dered a signal service which has gon,
 almost unnoticed; for in the tedioui
 weary Indian wars on the great pIaini
 it was he =tio developed in thorough
 going fashion the system of campaign
 ing in winter. which, al the cost O
 bitter hardship and peril, finall,
 broke down the handed strength c
 those formidable warriors, the hors' Indians.
 His career was tylically American for from plain begiuninggs he rose |,
 the highest military position in ou
 land. We honor ris memory itseIf
 and moreover, as in the case of tn. Iother great commanders of his day
 his career symboiizes the careers o
 all those men who in the years o