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Terrible Swift Sword: The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan - Wheelan, Joseph
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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 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 ...

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Terrible Swift Sword: The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan 2013, Da Capo Press, Cambridge, Ma

ISBN-13: 9780306821981

Trade paperback

Terrible Swift Sword: The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan 2012, Da Capo Press, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780306820274

Hardcover