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Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831 [1] [a] – August 5, 1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with General-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant , who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the ...
Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-88) was an aggressive Union general during the American Civil War (1861-65). He demonstrated his capacity for command during assignments on the U.S. frontier and...
Philip H. Sheridan was a highly successful U.S. cavalry officer whose driving military leadership in the last year of the American Civil War was instrumental in defeating the Confederate Army. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (1853), Sheridan served mostly at frontier.
Philip Henry Sheridan was a prominent Union general during the American Civil War and a career army officer, who rose to the position of general-in-chief of the United States Army before his death in 1888.
Sheridan commanded the cavalry at the closing battles of the Civil War, including Five Forks and Appomattox. After the war, Sheridan commanded various departments and divisions before he was promoted to lieutenant general in March, 1869.
During the Civil War, Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley was a vital resource to the Confederacy. Not only did it serve as the Confederate “breadbasket”, it was an important transportation route. The region had witnessed two large-scale campaigns already when Gen. Ulysses S. Grant decided to visit the Valley once again in 1864.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Sheridan was called east to serve as a captain in the 13th US Infantry in southwest Missouri. In late May 1862, he was appointed colonel of the 2nd Michigan Cavalry, and just over one month later, distinguished himself during a raid at Booneville, Mississippi.
Learn about the Civil War in the Valley from the stories of the men, women, soldiers, and civilians that lived through it. Philip H. Sheridan. Major General (USA) March 6, 1831 — August 5, 1888. In the fall of 1861, Sheridan was ordered to travel to Jefferson Barracks, near St. Louis, Missouri, for assignment to the 13th U.S. Infantry.
On the eve of the Civil War, Sheridan was promoted to First Lieutenant and then to Captain in 1861. He was ordered to staff duty in St. Louis. Civil War. His early experience as bookkeeper served him well. In St. Louis, Sheridan audited expenses and claims against the Army.