TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wheelan,Joseph
TI  - Terrible swift sword: the life of General Philip H. Sheridan 
SN  - 9780306820274
AV  - E467.1.S54 W54 2012
U1  - 355.0092B 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Da Capo Press
KW  - Sheridan, Philip Henry,
KW  - Sheridan, Philip H.
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Biography
KW  - fast
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Wars
KW  - 1866-1895
KW  - Generals
KW  - Military campaigns
KW  - Indianerkriege
KW  - gnd
KW  - Sezessionskrieg
KW  - 1861-1865
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Nonfiction
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -