Fifty Years of Public Service Personal Recollections of Shelby M Cullom Seni
Fifty Years of Public Service Personal Recollections of Shelby M Cullom Seni
Shelby M Shelby Moore Cullom
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The President scrutinized him closely. He did not appear to be the officer recommended to him by Grant as the one man who could bring the cavalry forces to that standard which was so much desired. The first time Lincoln met Grant after Sheridan called on him he expressed his doubt. "The officer you brought from the West seems rather a little fellow to handle your cavalry, " said he. Grant, however, unshaken in the belief that he at last had an officer under him whom he could trust in charge of ...all the armies of the Union if necessary, replied: " You will find him big enough for the purpose before we get through with him. " Sheridan was not only popular with his superior officers and men under him, but with the people generally. He was held in the highest esteem by the people of my State. After his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant-General, the citi- zens of Chicago presented him with a house in Washington, as a mark of their friendship and devotion. While Governor I rendered a decision in an extradition SPEAKER AND GOVERNOR 167 case, which formed a precedent, and which is referred to by writers on extradition.
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