"Little Phil" and his troopersThe life of GenPhilip HSheridanIts romance and reality: how an humble lad reached the head of an army .. . s that hardly reached over his horses sides,and quite broad shoulders. He was so small that he could scarcelybe seen from one end of the regiment to the other. The first impres-sion he made w^as not very satisfactory to either officers or men. Twodays later he started ofton a raid to Booneville, Mississippi, and provedhis quality. The regiment at once took new life under his officers and men felt perfect confidence in him, and in less thanfour
"Little Phil" and his troopersThe life of GenPhilip HSheridanIts romance and reality: how an humble lad reached the head of an army .. . s that hardly reached over his horses sides,and quite broad shoulders. He was so small that he could scarcelybe seen from one end of the regiment to the other. The first impres-sion he made w^as not very satisfactory to either officers or men. Twodays later he started ofton a raid to Booneville, Mississippi, and provedhis quality. The regiment at once took new life under his officers and men felt perfect confidence in him, and in less thanfour days after his appointment thfe soldiers named him Little always afterwards felt an unbounded pride in their was made a brigadier-general before he had received his commis-sion as colonel; in fact, he was not commissioned as colonel of theSecond Michigan Cavalry until after the war. While he was in com-mand at New Orleans, the commission was issued to him by the gov-ernor as a matter of sentiment. At a much later period, to make hisarmy record complete, he was mustered in as the colonel of his oldregiment. 4. PRESIDENT LINCOLN. [From a War-Time Photograph.] Chapter V. THE BATTLE OF BOONEVILLE. SHERIDANS FIRST BATTLE—IT WAS AT BOONEVILLE, MISSISSIPPI — STRENGTHOF HIS COMMAND — ITS PERILOUS POSITION —HOW HE MANAGED HIS TROOPS SENDING FOR REINFORCEMENTS—THE SCOUT AND THE NEGRO FOOL-ING THE ENEMY CAPTAIN ALGER AND THE FORLORN HOPE — THE LAST CHARGE, AND A COMPLETE VICTORY. The enemy has ten regiments under Chalmers. I want support,particularly ailillery. I have been cut up some little, but am still strong. This was Sheridans first appeal in a grave emergency. He met itwith a fearlessness and show of military sagacity that thus early in wardemonstrated his fitness for high command. He was only a colonelthen and had led the Second Michigan Cavalry but little more than amonth, when suddenly called upon to meet the serious responsibilities?of a battle
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