I presume that some one said to the Governor about this time, "Why don't you get Sheridan ?" This, however, is only conjecture.

I really do not know how my name was proposed to him, but I have often been told since that General Gordon Granger, whom I knew slightly then, and who had been the former colonel of the regiment, first suggested the appointment.

At all events, on the morning of May 27, 1862, Captain Russell A.Alger--recently Governor of Michigan -- accompanied by the quartermaster of the regiment, Lieutenant Frank Walbridge, arrived at General Halleck's headquarters and delivered to me this telegram: (By Telegraph.) "MILITARY DEPT OF MICHIGAN, "ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, "DETROIT, May 25, 1862.
GENERAL ORDERS NO.

148.
"Captain Philip H.Sheridan, U.S.Army, is hereby appointed Colonel of the Second Regiment Michigan Cavalry, to rank from this date.
"Captain Sheridan will immediately assume command of the regiment.
"By order of the Commander-in-Chief, "JNO.

ROBERTSON, "Adjutant-General." I took the order to General Halleck, and said that I would like to accept, but he was not willing I should do so until the consent of the War Department could be obtained.