superfluous. The public journals have chronicled them and preserved them for the historian. The artists have placed them on canvas, and the poets have sung his marvelous ride down to the Shenandoah Valley, as he pushed the fugitive Early to his fate. With the lapse of time his exploits will only grow brighter and brighter, and his laurels greener. When Washington was in danger, and incompetent generals only aggravated that danger, Grant, with his rare military prescience, looked about him for some man to check the victorious Early, and settled upon General Sheridan. He was placed in command of the middle military division. General Grant had the utmost confidence in him, and when the time came to move he did not burden him with instructions. Early was before him. The danger was imminent. Grant sent to Sheridan only the laconic bi-syllables, "Go in ;" and the way Sheridan went in, was as ruggedly Saxon as the motto. The defeat of Early culminated at the battle of WinchesSheridan was not with the army when it commenced. The day was against us. Sheridan arrived at Winchester and heard the artillery in the distance. He hurried on and met a sickening cloud of fugitives. He spurred his horse and dashed forth at the head of the wavering columns, rallied the dispirited army and burst upon the rebels like a thunder-storm, sending Early whirling down the valleys, broken and crushed past all remedy. Fourteen thousand men, and one hundred pieces of artillery, and a routed

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army were the fruits of the campaign, which was as brief as it was decisive.

His military jurisdiction in Louisiana was marked by firmness in the midst of immense obstacles, and wisdom where it required unusual prudence and patience to cope with the situation. The rebel spirit, though defeated, was not subdued, and manifested itself in bitter political opposition to all his measures, and to all attempts at reconstruction on the part of the general government. In the midst of constant endeavors to thwart his jurisdiction, by subtle and underhanded means, he firmly preserved order, protected the Unionists in their legitimate rights, and largely helped to restore order out of chaos.

In his recent operations against the Indians on our Western borders, he has displayed the same military sagacity and boldness which marked his course during the war of the rebellion. Subtle and cunning as the foe was that he had to deal with, he met cunning with cunning, and strategy with strategy, and when the opportunity came for striking a blow, it was struck with such force that the Indians soon learned to fear him, and were soon ready to sue for peace.

In all situations which he has filled, he has been faithful and competent, and equal to the last emerg ency. To clear, discriminating, executive ability, and an unflinching devotion to country, he unites a gal lantry which does not know danger, and a dashing brilliancy of operations which has made him the

admiration of the whole country. He is the Murat of the American army, and his name is linked with the brightest pages of American history. At the present writing his headquarters are located in Chicago, where he has made for himself a social reputation, as a gentleman and citizen, equal to the reputation he has always enjoyed as a soldier.

No apology is necessary for introducing such a hero-one of the chief actors in the battle of Stone River with a biographical sketch. Murfreesboro' and Stone River! Can I ever forget those names, or the battles that have made them forever memorable? Not while life lasts, nor through eternity to come, if perchance the consciousness which makes our mortal existence one long-connected memory, shall survive the dissolution of nature and stretch beyond into the immortal world. On the 27th of August, 1862, the "Pet and Pride" Board-of-Trade Regiment, of Chicago-the 88th Illinois-was mustered into service.

It was officered as follows:

Colonel, Francis T. Sherman, (son of Hon. F. C. Sherman, then Mayor of Chicago); Lieutenant-Colonel, A. S. Chadburn; Major, George W. Chandalier; Adjutant, J. Seymour Ballard; Quartermaster, N. S. Bouton; Surgeon, George Coatsworth; 1st Assistant Surgeon, A. C. Rankin; 2nd Assistant Surgeon, F. M. Burdick; Chaplain, J. C. Thomas.

Company A, Captain John A. Bross, (the gallant brother of Governor Bross.)