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| Volume II. | ||
| Chapter I. | ||
| Organizing Scouts | ||
| Miss Rebecca Wright | ||
| Important Information | ||
| Decides to Move on Newtown | ||
| Meeting General Grant | ||
| Organization of the Union Army | ||
| Opening of the Battle of the Opequon-Death of General Russell | ||
| A Turning Movement | ||
| A Successful Cavalry Charge | ||
| Victory | ||
| Three Loyal Girls | ||
| Appointed a Brigadier-General in the Regular Army | ||
| Remarks on the Battle | ||
| Chapter II. | ||
| Pursuing Early | ||
| A Secret March | ||
| Fisher's Hill | ||
| A Great Success | ||
| Removal of Averell | ||
| The Retreat | ||
| Capturing an Old Comrade | ||
| The Murder of Lieutenant Meigs | ||
| Chapter III. | ||
| Reasons for Not Pursuing Early Through the Blue Ridge | ||
| General Torbert Detailed to Give General Rosser a "Drubbing" | ||
| General Rosser Routed | ||
| Telegraphed to Meet Stanton | ||
| Longstreet's Message | ||
| Return to Winchester | ||
| The Ride to Cedar Creek | ||
| The Retreating Army | ||
| Rallying the Troops | ||
| Re-forming the Line | ||
| Commencing the Attack | ||
| Defeat of the Confederates | ||
| Appointed a Major-General in the Regular Army | ||
| Results of the Battle | ||
| Chapter IV. | ||
| General Early Reorganizes His Forces | ||
| Mosby the Guerrilla | ||
| General Merritt sent to Operate Against Mosby | ||
| Rosser Again Active | ||
| General Custer Surprised | ||
| Colonel Young Sent to Capture Gilmore the Guerrilla | ||
| Colonel Young's Success-Capture of General Kelly and General Crook-Spies | ||
| Was Wilkes Booth a Spy? | ||
| Driving the Confederates Out of the Valley | ||
| The Battle of Waynesboro' | ||
| Marching to Join the Army of the Potomac | ||
| Chapter V. | ||
| Transferred to Petersburg | ||
| General Rawlins's Cordial Welcome | ||
| General Grant's Orders and Plans | ||
| A Trip with Mr. Lincol and General Grant | ||
| Meeting General Sherman | ||
| Opposed to Joining the Army of the Tennessee | ||
| Opening of the Appomattox Campaign | ||
| General Grant and General Rawlins | ||
| Chapter VI. | ||
| Battle of Dinwiddie Court House | ||
| Pickett Repulsed-Reinforced by the Fifth Corps | ||
| Battle of Five Forks | ||
| Turning the Confederate Left | ||
| An Unqualified Success | ||
| Relieving General Warren | ||
| The Warren Court of Inquiry | ||
| General Sherman's Opinion | ||
| Chapter VII. | ||
| Result of the Battle of Five Forks | ||
| Retreat of Lee-An Intercepted Despatch | ||
| At Amelia Court House | ||
| Battle of Sailor's Creek | ||
| The Confederates' Stubborn Resistance | ||
| A Complete Victory | ||
| Importance of the Battle | ||
| Chapter VIII. | ||
| Lincoln's Laconic Despatch | ||
| Capturing Lee's Supplies | ||
| Delighted Engineers | ||
| The Confederates' Last Effort | ||
| A Flag of Truce | ||
| General Geary's "Last Ditch" Absurdity | ||
| Meeting of Grant and Lee | ||
| The Surrender | ||
| Estimate of General Grant | ||
| Chapter IX. | ||
| Ordered to Greensboro', N.C. | ||
| March to the Dan River | ||
| Assigned to the Command West of the Mississippi | ||
| Leaving Washington | ||
| Flight of General Early | ||
| Maximilian | ||
| Making Demonstrations on the Upper Rio Grande | ||
| Confederates Join Maximilian | ||
| The French Invasion of Mexico, and its Relations to the Rebellion | ||
| Assisting the Liberals | ||
| Restoration of the Republic | ||
| Chapter X. | ||
| A. J. Hamilton Appointed Provisional Governor of Texas | ||
| Assembles a Constitutional Convention-The Texans Dissatisfied | ||
| Lawlessness | ||
| Oppressive Legislation | ||
| Ex-Confederates Controlling Louisiana | ||
| A Constitutional Convention | ||
| The Meeting Suppressed | ||
| A Bloody Riot | ||
| My Reports of the Massacre | ||
| Portions Suppressed by President Johnson | ||
| Sustained by a Congressional Committee | ||
| The Reconstruction Laws | ||
| Chapter XI. | ||
| Passage of the Reconstruction Act Over the President's Veto | ||
| Placed in Command of the Fifth Military District | ||
| Removing Officers | ||
| My Reasons for Such Action | ||
| Affairs in Louisiana and Texas | ||
| Removal of Governor Wells | ||
| Revision of the Jury Lists | ||
| Relieved from the Command of the Fifth Military District | ||
| Chapter XII. | ||
| At Fort Leavenworth | ||
| The Treaty of Medicine Lodge | ||
| Going to Fort Dodge | ||
| Discontented Indians-Indian Outrages | ||
| A Delegation of Chiefs | ||
| Terrible Indian Raid | ||
| Death of Comstock | ||
| Vast Herds of Buffalo | ||
| Preparing for a Winter Campaign | ||
| Meeting "Buffalo Bill" | ||
| He Undertakes a Dangerous Task | ||
| Forsyth's Gallant Fight | ||
| Rescued | ||
| Chapter XIII. | ||
| Fitting Out the Winter Expedition | ||
| Accompanying the Main Force | ||
| The Other Columns | ||
| Struck by a Blizzard | ||
| Custer's Fight on the Washita | ||
| Defeat and Death of Black Kettle | ||
| Massacre of Elliott's Party | ||
| Relief of Colonel Crawford | ||
| Chapter XIV. | ||
| A Winter Expedition | ||
| Herds of Buffalo | ||
| Wolves-Blizzards | ||
| A Terrible Night | ||
| Finding the Bodies of Elliott's Party | ||
| The Abandoned Indian Camps | ||
| Pushing Down the Washita | ||
| The Captured Chiefs | ||
| Evans's Successful Fight | ||
| Establishing Fort Sill | ||
| "California Joe" | ||
| Duplicity of the Cheyennes | ||
| Ordered to Repair to Washington | ||
| Chapter XV. | ||
| Inspecting Military Posts in Utah and Montana | ||
| Desire to Witness the France | ||
| German War | ||
| On a Sand | ||
| Bar in the Missouri | ||
| A Bear Hunt | ||
| An Indian Scare | ||
| Myriads of Mosquitoes | ||
| Permission Given to Visit Europe | ||
| Calling on President Grant | ||
| Sailing for Liverpool | ||
| Arrival in Berlin | ||
| Chapter XVI. | ||
| Leaving for the Seat of War | ||
| Meeting with Prince Bismarck | ||
| His Interest in Public Opinion in America | ||
| His Inclinations in Early Life | ||
| Presented to the King | ||
| The Battle of Gravelotte-The German Plan | ||
| Its Final Success | ||
| Sending News of the Victory | ||
| Mistaken for a Frenchman | ||
| Chapter XVII. | ||
| Searching for Quarters | ||
| Hunting up Provisions | ||
| A Slender Breakfast | ||
| Going over the Battle | ||
| Field-The German Artillery | ||
| A Group of Wounded-Dining With the King | ||
| On the March | ||
| The Bavarians | ||
| Kirschwasser | ||
| Urging on the Troops | ||
| Chapter XVIII. | ||
| After McMahon | ||
| The Battle of Beaumont | ||
| The French Surprised | ||
| The Marching of the German Soldiers | ||
| The Battle of Sedan | ||
| Gallant Cavalry Charges | ||
| Defeat of the French | ||
| The Surrender of Napoleon | ||
| Bismarck and the King | ||
| Decorating the Soldiers | ||
| Chapter XIX. | ||
| Riding Over the Battle-Field | ||
| Destruction of Bazeilles-Mistakes of the French | ||
| Marshal Bazaine | ||
| On to Paris | ||
| A Week in Meaux | ||
| Rheims | ||
| On the Picket-Line | ||
| Under Fire | ||
| A Surrender | ||
| At Versailles | ||
| General Burnside and Mr. Forbes in Paris | ||
| Chapter XX. | ||
| Brussels | ||
| Deciding to Visit Eastern Europe | ||
| Austria | ||
| Down the Danube | ||
| In Constantinople | ||
| The Ladies of the Harem | ||
| The Sultan | ||
| Turkish Soldiers | ||
| A Banquet | ||
| A Visit in Athens | ||
| King George of Greece | ||
| Victor-Emmanuel | ||
| "Bedeviled with Cares of State" | ||
| Deer Shooting | ||
| A Military Dinner | ||
| Return to Versailles | ||
| Germans Entering Paris | ||
| Criticism on the France | ||
| Prussian War | ||
| Conclusion |
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Kaye Wade
reviewed Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Vol. 1 on April 30, 2020
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Vol. 1
This is a curious little book. As an autobiography it suffers from the fact that it leaves out nearly all of the most interesting parts of Franklin's life. This is a bit like reading an autobiography of John Lennon that ends a few years before he meets Paul McCartney. I'm not saying there is no interest in what is here, but any sort of version of such a man's life that ends well short of the American Revolution is more than a little heart breaking.
There are very amusing parts of this - particularly around how he sought to improve himself both morally, through a thirteen step plan, and as a writer. In fact, as 'advice to a young writer' this book offers some wonderful advice. He would read what he considered to be well written articles and then, a day or two later, would try to re-compose them, as accurately as possible, from memory. Then he would go back to the original article and compare his effort with that. As he persisted with this strategy he would sometimes find he had improved on the original, making the ordering of the points raised more logical or finding a particularly apt phrase that made the point in a way better than had been done in the original. This is such good advice. It is remarkably hard for us to take the reader into consideration when we write - and this method forces us to do exactly that. We think we know what we mean when we write something, but all too often we are only sure of our meaning at the moment we write it, and sometimes not even then. My favourite metaphor is that a writer must 'take the reader in hand'. And that is the level of care that is called for in our writing. His advice on arguing and avoiding words that imply too much certainty in our views is also well worth heeding.
It is interesting to read someone so steeped in the Enlightenment. To read a humanist who, as much as anything else, was keen to see a general improvement in humanity - whether through more universal access to learning (he set up the first subscription library and was instrumental in forming the first university in Pennsylvania) or in finding ways to ensure the streets are kept clean and well lit. In a world so much defined by Galbraith's memorable phrase about our being prepared to accept personal affluence set amidst public squalor, we can look back in wonder at the civic conscious people of the past.
There is something 'homespun' in the wisdom contained here, but the writing is always beautifully clear and this book does make you wish he had dedicated more time to telling more of his life - even the parts on his experiments with electricity are skimmed over in ways that leave you wishing for much, much more.
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