What type of writing is demonstrated in this excerpt by General Philip Henry Sheridan? At once I set about preparing for the examination which precedes admission to the Military Academy, studying zealously under the direction
of Mr. William Clark my old teachers. McNanly and Thom, having disappeared from Somerset and sought new fields of usefulness. The
intervening months passed rapidly away, and I fear that I did not make much progress, yet I thought I should be able to pass the
preliminary examination. That which was to follow worried me more and gave me many sleepless nights, but these would have been less in
number, I fully believe, had it not been for one specification of my outfit which the circular that accompanied my appointment demanded
This requirement was a pair of "Monroe shoes." Now, out in Ohio, what "Monroe shoes" were was a mystery-not a shoemaker in my
section having so much as an inkling of the construction of the perplexing things, until finally my eldest brother brought an idea of them
from Baltimore, when it was found that they were a familiar pattern under another name.
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memoir