Fighting Phil; the life and military career of Philip Henry Sheridan, general of the army of the United States . for cultivation, and where thehabits of their civilized life have unfitted them for thehunting of the buffalo and subsistence by the fruits of thechase. And I have heard the wMte^ refined, and devout chiefof the Cherokees, John Ross, relate by the hour the crueloutrages of those who have compelled his tribe to leavethe lands which had been ceded them, and the graves oftheLT fathers. See how Georgia, whose soil was not onlywet with the sweat and blood of slave-toil, but which waspree
Fighting Phil; the life and military career of Philip Henry Sheridan, general of the army of the United States . for cultivation, and where thehabits of their civilized life have unfitted them for thehunting of the buffalo and subsistence by the fruits of thechase. And I have heard the wMte^ refined, and devout chiefof the Cherokees, John Ross, relate by the hour the crueloutrages of those who have compelled his tribe to leavethe lands which had been ceded them, and the graves oftheLT fathers. See how Georgia, whose soil was not onlywet with the sweat and blood of slave-toil, but which waspreeminent in the abuse of the red race, has been sweptby the fires of war, and her fairest gardens laid waste byits iron hoofs and wheels. Lieutenant Sheridan had ere long to try his prowesswith the Apache warriors. One day he was outside thefort with two others, when a band of those savages sud-denly sprang upon them. The chief, not dreaming of re-sistance from three men amid several times their number,leaped from his ^ fiery mustang to seize his an instant Sheridan was on the back of the wild ^^. LIFE OF GENERAL SHERIDAN. 49 charger and galloping away to Fort Duncan. He sum-moned the troops to arms, seized his pistols without dis-mounting, and hastened back Hke a flying warrior to theaid of the two companions who were heroically fightingfor life. Dashing up to the enraged chief he levelled apistol at his head— crack ! went the little weapon, and,with a mad leap into the air, the Indian fell dead at thefeet of the lieutenants horse. The soldiers that followedhim then came up, and the just now exulting band wasridden down and most of the number killed. The valiantdeed, however, won no commendation from the command-ant of the fort, who seemed to have a southern prejudiceagainst the eastern and western hoy. The irritated, jealousoflicer charged his lieutenant with breach of discipline be-cause he was away from his command. That commanderhas been a rebel general in the
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