"Little Phil" and his troopersThe life of GenPhilip HSheridanIts romance and reality: how an humble lad reached the head of an army .. . oung Sheridan hadhis ambition fired with adesire to enter the militarvacademy. There was avacant cadetship at the dis-posal of General Ritchie, then a representative in Congress from thedistrict in which Somerset was included. The ambitious boy madehis application direct, writing and signing the letter himself and havingno endorsements attached. The congressman made the appointment, and the nominee went. PHILIP H. SHERIDAN. BREVET SECOND LIEUTENANT, AFTER GRA
"Little Phil" and his troopersThe life of GenPhilip HSheridanIts romance and reality: how an humble lad reached the head of an army .. . oung Sheridan hadhis ambition fired with adesire to enter the militarvacademy. There was avacant cadetship at the dis-posal of General Ritchie, then a representative in Congress from thedistrict in which Somerset was included. The ambitious boy madehis application direct, writing and signing the letter himself and havingno endorsements attached. The congressman made the appointment, and the nominee went. PHILIP H. SHERIDAN. BREVET SECOND LIEUTENANT, AFTER GRADUATION. 30 THE LIFE OF earnestly and industriously to work suppl^ing the deficiencies of alimited education. He placed himself under the tuition of a , a fine mathematician and excellent teacher. Pupil and teacherworked hard, and at the end of three months young Sheridan wasready for his examination. He left Somerset for West Point and wasadmitted to the academy in the spring of 1S4S. No moie peculiar looking lad had ever been admitted. He is,to-day, one of the most notable appearing of men, when one associateswith so commanding a military reputation, the physique which is com-monly presumed to be part of a soldiers qualifications. On horsebackand in battle. General Sheridan is the very embodiment of is the apotheosis in his personality of both brain and blow ; of in-tellect and action ; of swift conception and daring execution. Someone who has known him well declares that in the field Sheridan wasa terribly u
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