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have justified hopes equal to the actual result. To any one remembering also his early days of authority over the Yokimas in Oregon, it would doubtless have done so; for a Yokima community and the community of an "unreconstructed" southern rebel city are a good deal alike in many things. What Grant said of Sheridan was as follows, and was sent to Secretary Stanton just after Cedar Creek, and a little while before Sheridan's appointment as Major-General in the Regular Army, in place of McClellan, resigned:

"CITY POINT, Thursday, Oct. 20, 8 p. m.

HON. E. M. STANTON, etc.:

I had a salute of one hundred guns from each of the armies here fired in honor of Sheridan's last victory. Turning what bid fair to be a disaster into a glorious victory, stamps Sheridan what I always thought him, one of the ablest of generals.

U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant-General."

The extraordinary series of popular ovations which have attended Sheridan's recent tour through part of the North, have proved that he is profoundly admired, honored and loved by all good citizens; and unless we except Grant, probably Sheridan is the most popular -and deservedly the most popular-of all the commanders in the war. Such a popularity, and won not by words but by deeds, is an enviable possession.

Upon Gen. Grant's election to the presidency in 1868, his former position as general of the armies of the United States-a position only acceded to Washington in the whole line of American military heroesbecame vacant, and Congress chose to the honored

place that gallant soldier and strategist, General Wm. T. Sherman, whose glorious "march to the sea will live for all time in the annals of history; and having thus promoted Sherman, the brave Phil. Sheridan was raised from a Major General to the grade of Lieutenant General.

The most of Sheridan's time since his promotion, and indeed since the war, has been spent in the border territory of the West, where he has had a very important commission in looking after the Indian treaties and in carrying out the humane policy of the administration in its treatment of the roaming tribes inhabiting the reservations. He has shown himself as wise in that field as he was brave and skilful in the rough conflicts of the war.