Sheridan had much offended the white people there by his vigorous enforcement of laws, and especially by a letter in which he had spoken of them as banditti.

I stopped, during my stay in New Orleans, at the St.Charles Hotel, where Sheridan also was a guest.

When he came into the crowded breakfast-room every morning, there were loud hisses and groans from nearly the whole assembled company.

The morning papers teemed with abusive articles.
The guests would take these papers, underscore some specially savage attack, and tell the waiter to take it to General Sheridan as he sat at table at his breakfast.

The General would glance at it with an unruffled face, and bow and smile toward the sender of the article.