Terrible swift sword : the life of General Philip H. Sheridan /
Wheelan, Joseph.
Terrible swift sword : the life of General Philip H. Sheridan / Joseph Wheelan. - 1st Da Capo Press ed. - New York : Da Capo Press, 2012. - xxiii, 387 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue -- Rise from obscurity -- Stones River -- Defeat and victory at Chattanooga -- Sheridan's Cavalry Corps -- Killing Jeb Stuart -- The Shenandoah Valley -- Triumph at Winchester -- Burning the valley -- Miracle at Cedar Creek -- The end of Jubal Early's army -- Waterloo for the Confederacy -- The race to Appomattox -- Ruler of the southwest -- Winter war on the southern plains -- Lieutenant General Sheridan -- Final conquest of the Plains Indians -- The conservationist general -- Epilogue.
It was General Sheridan who introduced scorched-earth warfare to the South, and it was his Cavalry Corps that compelled Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. Sheridan's innovative cavalry tactics and "total war" strategy became staples of twentieth-century warfare. After the war, Sheridan ruthlessly suppressed the raiding Plains Indians much as he had the Confederates, by killing warriors and burning villages, but he also defended reservation Indians from corrupt agents and contractors.
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Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888.
Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888.
Sheridan, Philip H. 1831-1888
United States. Army --Biography.
United States. Army.
1861-1895
Indians of North America--Wars--1866-1895.
Generals--United States--Biography.
Generals.
Indians of North America--Wars.
Military campaigns.
Indianerkriege
Sezessionskrieg
United States--History--Campaigns.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States.
Nonfiction.
Biographies.
History.
Biographies.
E467.1.S54 / W54 2012
355.0092 B
Terrible swift sword : the life of General Philip H. Sheridan / Joseph Wheelan. - 1st Da Capo Press ed. - New York : Da Capo Press, 2012. - xxiii, 387 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue -- Rise from obscurity -- Stones River -- Defeat and victory at Chattanooga -- Sheridan's Cavalry Corps -- Killing Jeb Stuart -- The Shenandoah Valley -- Triumph at Winchester -- Burning the valley -- Miracle at Cedar Creek -- The end of Jubal Early's army -- Waterloo for the Confederacy -- The race to Appomattox -- Ruler of the southwest -- Winter war on the southern plains -- Lieutenant General Sheridan -- Final conquest of the Plains Indians -- The conservationist general -- Epilogue.
It was General Sheridan who introduced scorched-earth warfare to the South, and it was his Cavalry Corps that compelled Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. Sheridan's innovative cavalry tactics and "total war" strategy became staples of twentieth-century warfare. After the war, Sheridan ruthlessly suppressed the raiding Plains Indians much as he had the Confederates, by killing warriors and burning villages, but he also defended reservation Indians from corrupt agents and contractors.
9780306820274 0306820277 9780306821981 0306821982 9780306821097 0306821095
40021200707
2012018587
Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888.
Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888.
Sheridan, Philip H. 1831-1888
United States. Army --Biography.
United States. Army.
1861-1895
Indians of North America--Wars--1866-1895.
Generals--United States--Biography.
Generals.
Indians of North America--Wars.
Military campaigns.
Indianerkriege
Sezessionskrieg
United States--History--Campaigns.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States.
Nonfiction.
Biographies.
History.
Biographies.
E467.1.S54 / W54 2012
355.0092 B