The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-26
President Praised Men
of North and South
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city, in what is known as Sheridan
Square at the intersection of Massa-
chusetts avenue, Twenty-third and r
streets. 1t is surrounded by many
splendid mansions and is on the line
of one of the most popular driveways
of the city.
The military parade was headed by
General J. Franklin Bell, chief OF
staff of the army, with General Will
lam p Duvall as his chief aide. The
18th cavalry, the .4th battery OF field
artillery, the 18th, 44th, 45tn and 10th
coast artillery, companies F. and II of
the United States engineers, batteries
d and E of the 3rd field artillery the
18th cavalry, companies of marines.
2 companies of blue Jackets, from the
presidents yacht Mayf1ower and the
Dolphin were in line, the United States
Marine Band rendering appropriate
music. The second division consisted
of the District of Columbia militia.
composed of the LIST and End regiments
of infantry. the LIST separate battal-
ion, the signal corps, the LIST 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 Cum
berland, the Tennessee and the Ohio.
whose members served under the fam
ous soldier in whose honor they were
assembled.
President Roosevelt addressed the
assemblage and pronounced a splen-
did tribute to the valor and the mill
tary genius of Sheridan. Horace Por-
ter, former ambassador 20 France.
also spoke in honor of the soldier and
patriot and told of ais daring deeds
on the field of battle.
Presidents Address.
President Roosevelt spoke as fol
lows:
1t is eminently fitting that the ma
TONS illUstrious men. the men who
loom as heroes before the eyes Of our
people, should be fittingly commem-
GRATED here at the national capital,
and | am glad indeed to take part in
the unwilling of this statue to General
Sheridan. His name will always stand
high on the list of American worthless
Not only was he a great general. but
he showed his greatness with that
touch of originality which we cali
genius. Indeed this quality o. bril-
lance has been in one sense a disad-
vantage to his reputation, for it has
tended to Overshadow his solid ability.
We tend to think of him only as the
dashing cavalry leader. whereas he
was in reality not only that, but also
a great commander. OF course, the
fact in his career most readily recog-
nized was his mastery in the neces-
sarily modern art of handling masses
of modern cavalry so as to give them
the fullest possible effect. not only in
the ordinary operations of cavalry
which precede and follow a battle, but
in the battle itself. But in addition he
showed in the civil war that he was
a first-clasS army commander, both as
a subordinate ofSGrant and when in
Independent command. His record in
the valley campaign, and again from
Five Forks to Appomattox, is one diff
suit to parallel in military history.
In Indian Campaign.
After the close of the great war. in
field where there was scant glory
TO be won by the general in chief. ne
rendered signal service which has
gone almost unnoticed: for in the te-
dious weary Indian wars on the great
plains it was he who developed in
thorOugi-gOing fashion the system of |
campaigning in winter. which. at the |
cost of bitter hardship and peril. final |
~ broke down the banded strength Of I
those formidable warriors, the horse |
Indians.
His career was typicaily American |
for from plain beginnings he rose % |
the highest military position in our |
land. We honor his memory itself; |
and moreover, as in the case of the |
other great commanders of his day, |
his career symbolizes the careers Of |
all those men who in the wears of the
direst need sprang TO the |
front to risk everything. including |
life itself, and to spend the DAYS OF |
their strongest young manhood in va |
orous conflict for an ideal
An Empty Folly.
Often We Americans are tainted |
with having only material ideal. lhe |
empty folly of the taunt is sufficiently |
shown by the presence here today of |
you mel of the Grand Army, you the |
comrades of the dead general, the men /
who served with and under him. In |
all history We have no greater instance |
of subordination of self of the exalt- |
ing of lofty ideal over merely mate |
rial well-being among the people of a |
great nation, than was shown by our /
own people in the civil war.
And you. the men who wore the /
blue, would be the first TO say that |
this same lofty Indifference TO the /
things of the body. when com Dared to |