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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 5, 4 December 1884, Page 2

j England would have to undergo a great revolution before the Commander-in-Chief of her Army would be seen J standing by the grave of a war corresI poodent, as General Sheridan the other day stood by the tomb of poor McGahan, when his countrymen laid the remains of the brilliant war correspondent m their native soil. Sheridan was there officially, at the head of a detachment of war veterans, but it was lnY fellow towms-man,as well as as a gifted countryman, to whose memory he was paying honor. Sheridan and McGahan both j sprang from the same obscure little township of Ohio where the father of the former kept a small store, and where the latter when a lad worked on the little farm of his widowed mother, walking sixmiles every Saturday'to learn latin of a priest m Somerset, " county seat."