"Little Phil" and his troopersThe life of GenPhilip HSheridanIts romance and reality: how an humble lad reached the head of an army .. . for at least two decadespreceding the outbreak of civil war. There is no reason to doubtthat prominent southern leaders had brought their minds to the convic-tion that an armed conflict between the states was bound to comeover the question of slavery. The history of the Kansas stiuggle issufficient to prove this ; but to the historical student it will be muchmore clearly shown in the administration of two great branches of gov-ernment which seriously molded t
"Little Phil" and his troopersThe life of GenPhilip HSheridanIts romance and reality: how an humble lad reached the head of an army .. . for at least two decadespreceding the outbreak of civil war. There is no reason to doubtthat prominent southern leaders had brought their minds to the convic-tion that an armed conflict between the states was bound to comeover the question of slavery. The history of the Kansas stiuggle issufficient to prove this ; but to the historical student it will be muchmore clearly shown in the administration of two great branches of gov-ernment which seriously molded the conditions of life in the then almostunknown West, from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. In thetwenty years indicated, that is, from 1S40 to i860, there will not befound the names of over a score of northern born men appointed topositions as Indian agents, or other important places connected withthat service. Of that score not a half dozen can be named who werein sympathy with free soil ideas. In the Kansas struggle there was butone such man. Agent Gay, of the Shawnee tribe, and he was killed GEN. PHIL. H. SHERIDAN. 39.
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