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Terrible Swift Sword: The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan
Terrible Swift Sword The Life of General Philip H Sheridan Author:Joseph Wheelan Alongside Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan is the least known of the triumvirate of generals most responsible for winning the Civil War. Yet, before Sherman?s famous march through Georgia, it was General Sheridan who introduced scorched-earth warfare to the South, and it was his Cavalry Corps that compelled Rober... more »t 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. Sheridan, an enthusiastic hunter and conservationist, later ordered the US cavalry to occupy and operate Yellowstone National Park to safeguard it from commercial exploitation. « less
ISBN-13: 9780306821981 ISBN-10: 0306821982 Publication Date: 9/3/2013 Pages:432 Edition:First Trade Paper Ed Rating: