No one who knew or saw Sheridan then thought of the great position he was to occupy in our Army, but when he took hold of that Army and stripped it and fed it, three hundred miles away from rail or water communication, we all knew that his was a master-mind.
Dodge praises General Sheridan's leadership and strategic mind during a critical time in the Civil War.
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