T WAS just
ago, March 6,
there
Irish in
in Albany, N. Y., a boy
who was destined for
lasting fame as an Amer-
lean soldier and as one of
the great cavalry leaders
of all time. Philip Henry Sheridan
was his name but American tradition
has preserved his memory in two
nicknames which his devoted follow-
ers gave him—“Fighting Phil”
“Little Phil” And like
horseman of an earlier war,
Revere of the Revolution, Phil
idan, the dashing cavalryman
the Civil war, owes of
perpetuation of his name
100 years
1831, that
born to an
couple
was
of
the
some
“Sheridan's Ride.”
Ohlo
parents mcved to and
near Somerset In Perry county. There
les for education. There the charac-
dent early. Young Sheridan
for a country storekeeper for the sum
of 50 cents a week, and although his
was a faithful worker, he also com-
mented upon the fact that what time
the boy wasn't working he was “talkin’
soldier or playin’ soldier.”
At the seventeen Sheridan
had the good fortune to secure an ap-
pointment to West Point, and although
his limited education made the work
age of
made a fairly good record at the acad-
emy. However, he lived to his
“scrappy” reputation by having such
& fight with a fellow cadet that he
was suspended for a year, and instead
of belng graduated In class of
1852, as he should have been, he was
not graduated until 1853 and then he
stood No. 34 In a class of 52.
Following his graduation and ap-
pointment as a second lieutenant in
the Infantry, Sheridan spent the next
eight years In comparative obscurity.
He was detailed to service on the
frontier and In various parts of the
West saw service against the Indians,
which not only afforded him good
training with the dragoons for his
future career as a cavalryman but also
gave him an Insight into the Indian
character which was to he particularly
valuable during the Plains wars after
the conflict of 1861-65,
The outbreak of the Civil war, how-
ever, gave Sheridan his chance to dis
play the genius which was to give vim
his place among the great cavalry
leaders of the world. Detailed first
on the staff of General Halleck at
8t. Louis, he soon attracted atten.
tion by his capacity for detall, his
energy and his unfailing devotion to
duty, and these qualities resulted in
his appointment as colonel of the Sec
ond Michigan cavalry. Only a few
weeks later he was elevated to the
grade of brigadier general of the Unit
ed States Volunteers. That was in
1862, and by the end of the year he
had been placed In command of a di-
vision and given his commission of
major general. And all of this had
happened when he was but thirty-two
years of age,
Sheridan's record during the first
up
the
ow
*
MoT2is he
Ewing
EI WASHINGTON. D.!
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SHERIDAN’S RIDE
Up from the south at break of day,
Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay,
The affrighted air with a shudder bors,
Like a herald in haste, to the chieftain's
door,
The terrible grumble, and rumble, and
roar,
Telling the battle was on once more,
And Sheridan twenty miles away.
And wider still those billows of war
Thundered along the horizom's bar;
And louder yot into Winchester rolled
The roar of that red sem uncentrolied,
Making the blood of the listener cold,
As he thought of the stake in that 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,
A steed as black as the steeds of night
Was seen to pass, as with eagle flight;
As if he knew the terrible need,
He stretched away with his
speed ;
Hills rose and fell, but his heart was
way,
With Sheridan fifteen miles away,
utmost
Still sprang from those swift hoofs,
thundering south,
The dust, like smoke from the cannons’
mouth,
Or the trail of a comet, sweeping fast.
er and faster,
Poreboding to traitors the doom of dis.
aster,
The heart of the steed and the heart of
the master
Were beating like prisoners assaulting
their walls,
Impatient to be where
calls;
Every nerve of the charger was strained
to full play,
With Sheridan only tem miles away.
the battlefield
Under his spurning feet, the read
Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed,
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind;
And the steed, like a bark fod with fur.
nace fre,
Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire;
But, lo! he is nearing his heart's desire;
He is snuffing the smoke of the roar.
ing fray,
With Sheridan only five miles away,
The first that the general saw were the
|roups
Of stragglers, and then the retreating
troops;
What was done? What to de? A lance
told him both,
Then, striking his spurs, with a terrible
oath,
He dashed down the Mine, "mid a storm
of horses,
And the wave of retreat checked ita
course there, because
The sight of the master compelled it to
pause,
With foam and with dust the black
charger was gray;
By the flash of his eye, and the red
nostril's play,
He seemed to the whole great army to
say:
“1 bave brought you Sheridan all the
way
From Winchester town to cave the
day ™
Hurrah! hurrah for Sheridant
Hurrah! hurrah for horse and man!
And when thelr statues are placed om
high,
Under the deme of the Union shy,
The American soldier's Temple of Fame,
There, with the glorious general's name,
Be ft said, in letters bold and bright:
“Here is the steed that saved the day
By carrying Sheridan inte the fight,
From Winchester ~ twenty miles
away I”
~~THOMAS BUCHANAN READ.
three years of the war was brilliant
enough, with his part fn the battles at
Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga
and Chattanooga, but he rose to the
| heights in 1804
| chief of the caval
i of the Potomac
| famous campaign
sy of Virg a.
was to checkma
cavalry
of the Confed
leader, Gen
| astate this rich
could no longer
idan
firing ir
where
i]
to the back of
“Winchester.”
| of
routed
miles
by
“
ot)
joy Before
of the Valles
wildest
they drove Early out
the
A reference to Sheridan's “Personal
Memoirs” :
however, will
and other standar
show that s jeg
{ end can stand considerable correction.
| In the first place Sheridan did not
ride any 20 miles, has him
doing. It is only 13 miles from Win-
{ chester to Cedar Creek and he had his
first view of his disorganized army at
| Mill Creek, less than a mile from Win-
chester, From there actual
“front” it was not much than
{| %ine or ten miles, Nor was his ride
made alone nor covered at top speed
all the way, ns the poet would have
us believe. He was accompanied by
two of his aldes-de-camp, Maj, George
A. Forsythe and Capt. Joseph O'Keefe
and at various places along the route
of his progress toward the enemy he
paused long enough to give orders to
various officers about rallying the re-
treating Union troops. As for the
“Turn, boys, turn! We're going
back!" type of exclamation so often
attributed to Sheridan, these words
from his “Memoirs” speak for them.
selves: “I said nothing except to re.
mark as I rode among those on the
road: 'If I had been with you this
morning this disaster would not have
happened. We must face the other
way; we will go back and recover our
camp.'”
Although Sheridan is known to more
Americans because of this Incident
than any other in his career, that en-
reer continued long after the Civil
war. It included service on the Mexi.
can border In the days when the Max.
milian frcident was a threat to our
peaceful relations with European
countries, during the Indian wars on
the plains when he was in command
of the operations which finally brought
about, the subjugation of the warlike
tribes, as guest observef on the staff
of King William during the Franco-
Prussinn war and as commander In
chief of the United States army after
the retirement of Sherman. Sheridan
died In 1888 at the age of ‘Gfty-seven
years with the rank of full general, a
grade which hill been restored by con.
gress that year In his favor,
(8 by Western Newspaper Union.)
| ties,
as the poet
to the
more
A. PL rs
2 €
tMud Puddle Brought?
Them Together
By HELEN ST. BERNARD
rr ppp rrp i
(E1931, McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
(WNU Bervice.)
AT LAST Marjorie was to meet
Barton Leach, after having cor-
responded with him for three years,
It had begun when her chum, Ann
Parker, had married a naval officer
and had gone to Honolulu to live. Let.
ters had been exchanged regularly and
her husband's brother-officer. Then
there had been a esting message from
Leach to Marjorie and a regular cor-
respondence had ensued with her re
ply. It had been planned that she
was to spend a summer vacation with
Ann and Bob, but Bob had decided to
leave the navy and go Into his fa-
ther's business, so they had returned
to the States
And now
guest! Ann
jJarton Leach was thelr
had called that morning
and that
Marjorie, was to out for
dinner. And that Bart had talked and
talked about her and
look her very prettiest,
While she dressed. she kept her eyes
the photograph on her dresser
come
she
nice as [-—
to him,
“1 know
You
yon
are.”
are as
she confided
heen saved for
and then as
brocaded
had
occasion,
the
which
special
she slipped
hose,
into trim
these slippers and this beautiful green
dress, that there was to be a very spe
cial wear them
and now—1] am golng to see you face
to face after
ocenslon to
these
and walt.
and yeu are
pped a light kasha wrap
liness of the green frock,
ing now here
She sli
the los
vlewed
herself In the mirror.
and 1 won.
like me
ue 1 know y¢
der If yon
much as | know 1
much ns 1 like you.”
There hs
afternoon and to save
pers, Mariord
then, expe
on the cur
1 are
are going to nu
shall ns
rain In the
silver slip
And
n her place
and walted for It, thrilled
the
id ben a Hght
the
calle a cab
she took
evening he
she had
with
fore
dered
had
his | ers
anticipation of
the evening
her: 2 wan.
ahout for three years since he
started to call her “Margie” ir
and to speak about that
they id finally
happened very quickly
tht In its
mings and shining n
There was a sha
it struck a mod puddle
Marlorie loni
the front «
“teave™
It a!
sped hy—hri
when wo meet
A car
trim
finish
nickel
aAroOn
rp swish of water
near the curh
and ed down with a cry
of despair: her heautiful
chiffon dress was one big dark sha
of muddy, olly water, and it was drip
lovely
nine roraded
ng h OCR ONG
I
that
lamp n
roadster
than na
on her
twinkled under the street
The maroon
traffic
had
moment before,
caught In
half block away,
wns
tear-dimmed
on the 4
“Set
eyes she read in
tyne tire
r 8"
glaringly
stood he.
curb. 188.
letters
the
number stood
seemed to dels
words !
out
her as she
on the
gitting
draggled, furious.
The driver,
wheel a
his eves,
~amy
$40
the
over was blissfully
scious of the disaster he had left In
his She wns
herself to the offender when
“Yon
wake, ahoant to present
called a taxi ma'am?
the
The
was firmly Impressed in her
rowing on
the maroon roadster
188-745
vengeance driver
Heense—
without being made a victim of ruth
leas careless drivers—she
him!
in front of Ann's home. And
would loan her a frock. but 4
she stopped short! In the drivewny
bright new roadster—the
drum-type carrier loudly proclaimed
it was a “Senator 8" and the lHeenszo
Ann
"And this is Margie, Bart” Ann
was saying. “Some beast of a driver
drove through a mud puddle and Just
ruined her lovely dress.”
“I think that people who drive like
some of these fools In this town
should be prosecuted,” sald Barton
Marjorie smiled ap at him,
an sccident,
“It was
you know, and ft
1 shouldn't
and
the dress will
clean”
Late that night the maroon road.
ster, the “Senator 8,” stopped In front
of Marjorie's apartment, but Bart's
arm held her tight,
“Life is more or less of n mud-pud-
die unless you know how to step over
or around them, and with you to show
me how to smile when | get spattered
tike yon did tonight. You do love me,
don't you. Margie? And you will RO
back to Honoluln with me, won't you?
And we'll take the new car--and we'll
clear the muddle puddles all right,
you and L"
Wife at Bargain Rate
An English newspaper of 1708 re
ported the sale of a wife at Sheffield
for sixpence, and commented upon the
poor price accepted beennse wives at
that time were fetching as much ne
10s 6d to three and a halt guineas at
Smithfield market, London.
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