Country: USA
Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831[1] - August 5, 1888) was a
career United States Army officer and a Union general in the
American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to
major general and his close association with Lt. Gen. Ulysses S.
Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry
division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the
Army of the Potomac in the East. In 1864, he defeated Confederate
forces in the Shenandoah Valley and his destruction of the economic
infrastructure of the Valley, called "The Burning" by residents,
was one of the first uses of scorched earth tactics in the war. In
1865, his cavalry pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee and was instrumental
in forcing his surrender at Appomattox.
Sheridan prosecuted the later years of the Indian Wars of the Great
Plains, tainting his reputation with some historians, who accuse
him of racism. Both as a soldier and private citizen, he was
instrumental in the development and protection of Yellowstone
National Park. In 1883 Sheridan was appointed general-in-chief of
the U.S. Army, and in 1888 he was promoted to the rank of four-star
general by President Grover Cleveland.
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