Show AND STILL THEY COME one more victim to the iconoclastic juggernaut that ride of general sheridan to the battle of winchester a feat which has been immortalized in prose and poesy and been used ud and abused in many luany cases on the rostrum in the schoolroom and on th the stage ta g never took place in the manner mann f and form set out at all it seems after do de capi tating poor old barbara fritchle fritchie and by so doing plucking a leaf from stonewall jacksons jackson laurels the idol wreckers prepared us for almost any to the extent of hearing that general genera Sher shermans mans march to thelea the sea was planned and carried out by a subordinate but we got to that yet the rhe thing in order now is putting to flight the glories of that famous ride which is effectually accomplished if the following from the st bt louis globe democrat is to be relied on 1 I once had a talk with gen phil ahll sheridan about his famous winchester wincel ste ride said judge 0 S stoddard to the ithe reminiscence club that was holding a at the southern Soui hern ID was immediately after the appearance of the poem celebrating that thrilling event I 1 read it through to him and he be stood for a few switching his boota with a sprig 8 rig of hazel bush then said slowly if 1 I think if tao te versifier had seen that steed as black as the steeds of night and knew how I 1 had to spur and whip the old crow bait to get it to go over the road he would not nol have had the attack of hysteria of which that poem is in the offspring once my famous charger stumbled and I 1 came near going over his head into a mud puddle instead of his plunging with me into the thickest of the fray he played out completely and I 1 had to take the mount of an orderly the rhy meters are blessed with very vivid imaginations 11 after this all there is in left for us to do is in to lay back and wait for the next development in view of recent events in this line we shall certainly not have to wait very long |