Terrible swift sword : the life of General Philip H. Sheridan / Joseph Wheelan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Da Capo Press, 2012.Edition: 1st Da Capo Press edDescription: xxiii, 387 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780306820274
  • 0306820277
  • 9780306821981
  • 0306821982
  • 9780306821097
  • 0306821095
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 355.0092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • E467.1.S54 W54 2012
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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