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Title: Men and things I saw in civil war days
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Rusling, James Fowler, 1834-1918
Subjects: Generals
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati, The Methodist book concern
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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savingvirtues of soap and water—something remarkable for aredskin. In manner he was dignified, in speech acute andsagacious, and he prided himself even then on being afriend to the white man. We spent several days and nights with Kit Carson andthe Utes, and Sherman seemed to enjoy the time hugely,as a schoolboy let loose. He threw off all reserve asgeneral of the Army, and entered fully into the life of thepioneer and Indian. He asked a thousand questions ofeverybod;^. and was never at a loss for a story or a joke,and added to the effect of these by the twinkle of his eye,the toss of his head, and the serio-comic twitch of hismany-wrinkled features, in a way indescribable. Mean-while he smoked constantly, and kept up that everlastinglong stride of his up and down the floor or ground, withhis hands deep in his trousers pockets, as if he would neverweary. Beyond doubt, he was a great man and originalthinker in many ways, and deservedly has taken his placein the American Valhalla. 122
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Gen, Sheridan^ i864. Philip H. Sheridan CHAPTER IXPhilip H. Sheridan It was not my fortune to serve under General Sheridan,but I saw something of him, and came to esteem him veryhighly. He also was a West Pointer, and an Ohioan likeSherman; but was too young to have served in Mexico.He had distinguished himself, however, in our Indiantroubles in Texas, Oregon, and Washington prior to thewar. In the autumn of 1861 he was ordered East from thePacific coast at his own request for active duty against theRebellion. In December, 1861 (being then captain of theThirteenth United States Infantry), he reported to Gen-eral Halleck at St. Louis, and was assigned to duty as chiefquartermaster and chief commissary of the Army ofSouthwest Missouri. Of course, this did not last long.He was too gamey and mettlesome a man for such rou-tine staff duties, though he knew much about horses,mules, wagons, rations, etc., and in due time—as naturallyas water runs or grass grows—became colonel of the Sec-o

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