"Little Phil" and his troopersThe life of GenPhilip HSheridanIts romance and reality: how an humble lad reached the head of an army .. . - mentioned as very gallant. The great river of Oregon breaks through the Cascade Range, amountain formation which practically divides Oregon into two odd miles east of the Cascades the Columbia makes, by ? turningon its edge, what is termed the Dalles. Sheridans earliest dutywas in this region, where settlements had already commenced, menaced,though they were, by the constant unfriendliness of the Yakima pioneers of Oregon have not
"Little Phil" and his troopersThe life of GenPhilip HSheridanIts romance and reality: how an humble lad reached the head of an army .. . - mentioned as very gallant. The great river of Oregon breaks through the Cascade Range, amountain formation which practically divides Oregon into two odd miles east of the Cascades the Columbia makes, by ? turningon its edge, what is termed the Dalles. Sheridans earliest dutywas in this region, where settlements had already commenced, menaced,though they were, by the constant unfriendliness of the Yakima pioneers of Oregon have not yet forgotten the scenes which accom-panied and followed the outbreak in 1S47, when Dr. Whitman and hisassociates were massacred in the Walla Walla Valley. Sheridanarrived in the v/inter of 18^3-4. and entered at once into active and GEN. PHIL. H. SHERIDAN. 35. SHERIDAN A DRY GOODS CLERK. PRESENT APPEARANCE OF THE OLD STORE AT SOMERSET, OHIO, WHERE LITTLE PHIL STOOD BEHIND THE COUNTER. \^From a Recent Pliotograph.\ arduous service, both at post and in the field. In the former, by ser-vice as adjutant, commissary, quartermaster, as well as by companyduty, he acquired that minute knowledge of all militar} administrationand details which so early distinguished his army career. In the field there was found ample opportunity for Sheridan, subor-dinate though he was, to prove the metal of which he was made. Oldarmy men who served with the tireless, audacious, restless, daringyoung officer, are never tired of telling of his feats and exploits. Aninteresting fact is that, though an infantrv officer, Sheridan was oftenest 36 THE LIFE OF assigned when in the field to command of a detachment of one occasion, in the fall of 1S55, ^^^ niade a march from Fort Red-ding, where he was stationed, to the north side of the Columbia was over
Size: 1578px × 1584px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectsherida, bookyear1888
