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Second Regiment Cavalry
Then came his long repose, while the nation wove its chaplets of laurel for Sherman and his heroes. Presently Sheridan was in the saddle again, and we read of his startling operations upon Lee's communications, and his bold ride around the rebel left, and into the very camp of General Grant. Again, in a few days, he leads the movement in the great closing campaign that seals the fate of Richmond, and becomes the most conspicuous figure when the great five days of battle were at the white heat of carnage and excitement. No spyglass soldier is Phil. Sheridan, looking upon the carnage from secure grassy knolls, but a terrible leader of desperate charges, a man all aflame with excitement in his animal nature, but with an intellect cool beyond treachery, and fertile in resources beyond precedent. The blazing energy of such a leader makes the humblest soldier a hero.
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