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Title: "Little Phil" and his troopers. The life of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan. Its romance and reality: how an humble lad reached the head of an army ..
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Burr, Frank A., 1843-1894 Hinton, Richard J. (Richard Josiah), 1830-1901, joint author
Subjects: Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888
Publisher: Providence, R.I., J. A. & R. A. Reid
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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PHILIP HENRY SHERIDAN. (From a Recent Photograj>h.\ Chapter XXX. SHERIDANS LAST RIDE. LYING IN STATE — QUAINT AND QUIET ST. MATTHEWs THE WIDOWS LAST FAREWELL — THE DECORATIONS AND CATAFALQUE — CHANTING THE RK-qyiEM — SCENES IN THE CHURCH — THE DISTINGUISHED CONGREGATION —ALTAR BOYS AND DOMINICAN MONKS — CARDINAL GIBBONS* SERMON —— THE FUNERAL PAGEANT—BUGLER KIMBALL SOUNDS TAP-TAPS —PUT OUT THE lights — GOOD-NIGHT — HISTORIC ARLINGTON ANDSHERIDANS GRAVE. The Church of vSt. Matthews, on the corner of Fifteenth, and HStreet Northwest, is a plain, simple, puritanical structure, at firstglance to a strangers eye looking quite unlike a Catholic Church. Itwas the centre of attraction on the loth of August, for the body ofa beloved soldier of the Republic lay there in state, ere removal to itsfinal resting-place at Arlington. Before the public was admitted, just before 8 A. M., Mrs. Sheridan,accompanied by her father and mother. General and Mrs. Rucker, hersisters

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