April 12, 2024
PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF GENERAL P.H. SHERIDAN - MINT CONDITION - CIVIL WAR
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PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF P. H. SHERIDAN General of the United States Army BY GENERAL P.H. SHERIDAN WRITTEN BY HIMSELF MINT CONDITION This is a brand-new, un-read, pristine-condition book set. The set you get comes still in the original, shipping wrap. Complete Two-Volume, Matching Set New, Sharp, Clean, Bright, Solidly-Bound Set Loaded with Wonderful Illustrations and Maps Contains Large, Fold-Out Map ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1888, THIS IS THE 1992 HANDSOMELY-PUBLISHED FASCILIME SET BY BROADFOOT PUBLISHING General Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888) was the most important Union cavalry commander of the Civil War, and ranks as one of America's greatest horse soldiers. From Corinth through Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, he made himself a reputation for courage and efficiency; after his defeat of J.E.B. Stuart's rebel cavalry, Grant named him commander of the Union forces in the Shenandoah Valley. There he laid waste to the entire region, and his victory over Jubal Early's troops in the Battle of Cedar Creek brought him worldwide renown and a promotion to Major General in the regular army. It was Sheridan who cut off Lee's retreat at Appomattox, thus securing the surrender of the Confederate Army. Subsequent to the Civil War, Sheridan was active in the 1868 war with the Comanche and Cheyenne, where he won infamy with his statement that
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