The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-03
"SHER|DANS RIDE"
At AMERICAN
FAMOUS TWENTY MILE RIDE OF
GENERAL-lS PORTRAYED IN
SPLENDID PICTURES.

The American theater has announced
a big three-reel attraction for today
and tomorrow. 1t is a picture that
will appeal to everybody, for it is no
less than a splendid production as his
torically correct as could be made at
this day Of the famous ride of Gem
eral Phil Sheridan. The film was
tried out yesterday. 1t proved to be
a thriller. Immediately one harks back
to his early school days. back to the
time when required to learn by
heart the famous poem "Sheridan's
Ride" which immortalized the wild
ride of General Sheridan on his steed.
" "A steed as black as the steeds of
night. from Winchester. down to save
the day."
How quickly the first lines of that
poem come to mind:
up from the south at break of day
Bring to Winchester fresh dismay,
The affrighted air with a shudder
bore
The first verse is easy; perhaps the
second. too. But the chances are that
you cannot get all the way through
without help. AT any rate, it is a good
thing to read the poem again and
then go and see the pictures at the
American:
Up from the South at break of day,
Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay,
The affrighted air with a shudder bore.
Like 81 herald in haste to the chief
tain's door.
The terrible grumble, and tumble and
roar,
Telling the battle was on once nor
And Sheridan twenty miles away.
And wider still those pillows of war
~Thundered along the horizons bar;
And louder yet into Winchester rolled
The war of that red sea uncontrolled,
Making the blood of the listener cold,
AS the thought of the stake in hat
fiery fray.
And Sheridan twenty miles away.
But there is a road from Winchester
town,
A good broad highway leading down;
And there, through the flush of the
morning light,
~ EStStNt as bisSf so tih' tSNN'c "
Was seen to pass, as with eagle flight
AS if he knew the terrible need
He stretched away with his utmost
: speed;
Hills rose and fell; but his heart was
gay.
With Sheridan fifteen miles away.
:. Still sprung from those swift hoofs.
laundering South
! The dust, like smoke from the lannon's
mouth
On the trail Of a comet, sweeping
faster and faster.
F~oreboding to traitors the doom of
disaster,
The heart of the steed and the heart
9 Of the, master
t Were beating like prisoners %asssaulting
their walls
r Every nerve of the charger was strain
ed to full play
With Sheridan only ten miles away.
Under his spurning feet the road,
n Like an aITowy Alpine river, flowed,
: And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind,
d And the. steed, like a bark fed with
+ furnace ire,
Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire.
!. But, 10! he is nearing his hearts
: desire,
He is snuffing the smoke of the roar
ing fray,
With Sheridan only five miles away.
| Thn first thl+ tho pntny.at ya,y ,,,ro
the groups
OF stragglers, and then the retreating
troops;
What was done? What to do? A
glance told him both;
Then striking his spurs, with a ter
rible oath,
He dashed down the line, mid a storm
of huZ2as,
And the wave of retreat checked it's
course there, because
The sight OF the master compelled 1t
to pause,
With foam and with lust the black
charger was gray
By the flash of his eye. and the. red
nostrils play,
He seemed to the whole great army to
II have brought you, Sheridan, all the
way
From Winchester. down to save the
day"
VII.
Hurrah! hurrah for Sheridan!
Hurrah! hurrah for horse and man!
And when their statutes are placed
on high
Under the dome of the Union sky,
The American soldiers Temple OF
Fame,
There with the glorious Generals name
Be it said in letters both bold and
bright:
Here Is the steed that saved the day
By carrying Sheridan into the fight
From Winchester - twenty miles
away"
WILL FAVOR A STRIKE.