As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Bedloe's Island.
That name will have no meaning at all to everyone, but I place it here as a historical footnote even though if every person of you has seen this island.
Bedloe's Island was once a military occupied station. The Second Lt. in charge of the 4th infantry for some time in 1855 was Phil Sheridan.
That island is the island where the Statue of Liberty now stands upon.
Just a final Jeopardy answer in most people will not realize this was a miltary barrack, but according to Phil Sheridan it was.
"In November, 1854, I received my promotion to a second lieutenancy in the Fourth Infantry, which was stationed in California and Oregon. In order to join my company at Fort Reading, California, I had to go to New York as a starting point, and on arrival there, was placed on duty, in May, 1855, in command of a detachment of recruits at Bedloe's Island, intended for assignment to the regiments on the Pacific coast.
I think there were on the island (now occupied by the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World) about three hundred recruits. For a time I was the only officer with them, but shortly before we started for California, Lieutenant Francis H. Bates, of the Fourth Infantry, was placed in command. We embarked for the Pacific coast in July, 1855, and made the journey without incident via the Isthmus of Panama, in due time landing our men at Benecia Barracks, above San Francisco."
Philip Henry Sheridan. Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army
It is an amusing thing in logic would dictate that the army put the recruits on the island so they could not change their minds and desert in trying to make a swim to shore.
Odd thing also in Phil Sheridan was in Texas and in order to get to California, he had to go to New York and then sail around the entire continent to get there.
Important fact in they crossed Panama instead of making the long voyage around the Cape.
That is enough in you have learned a bit about America now lost and you never knew nor ever will know.
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