Philip Sheridan

Philip Sheridan (March 6, 1831 – August 5, 1888) was a general in the Union army during the American Civil War. He was born in 1831 in New York and grew up in Ohio. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1853.

He started in the Western Theater in the Civil War. He commanded a brigade during the summer of 1862. By October 1862 he was in command of a division. In April 1864 he was transferred to the Army of the Potomac to command the cavalry corps.

After the war, Sheridan commanded the army during the American Indian Wars. He died in 1888 in Massachusetts.

Philip Sheridan Media

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  An engraving of Sheridan as a Brevet Second Lieutenant in the 1850s, by Henry Bryan Hall

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  Sheridan's horse Rienzi, stuffed and on display at the National Museum of American History

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  Union Army Cavalry General Philip Sheridan

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  Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan and his generals in front of Sheridan's tent, 1864. Left to right: Henry E. Davies, David McM. Gregg, Sheridan, Wesley Merritt, Alfred Torbert, and James H. Wilson.

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  Union Cavalry General Philip Sheridan

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  Sheridan's Ride, a chromolithograph by Thure de Thulstrup

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  Lee's retreat in the Appomattox Campaign, fought between April 3 and April 9, 1865

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  Sheridan depicted in a portrait by Mathew Brady or Levin C. Handy

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  Union Army General Philip H. Sheridan