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Joly, after our discussion last week of Grant County and Sheridan, I did a little research of my own. I too enjoy history and took a goodly bit of it in school. I think the answer to the naming of Grant County might be fairly simple. I think it happened in the early days of reconstruction which means that the Arkansas legislature was in the hands of Northerners, Blacks and Northern sympathizers; however, that does not explain the naming of the city of Sheridan which happened after reconstruction which ended in 1872.
Read a little bit about Sheridan. Must say he was a pretty interesting character. Had to laugh at one of the things he said about Texas. After the war, the South was divided up into districts with a couple of generals to see to the administration of each district. Usually the districts were a couple of states. Arkansas and Mississippi were a district and Texas was another one to which Sheridan was assigned. Anyway, General Sheridan was not fond of Texas and a saying attributed to him was "If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell." Don't mean any disrespect to Texas as I have spent some of my life there and I have a connection to that state in that my mother was a Texan.