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Philip Sheridan
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Philip Sheridan
Philip Henry Sheridan
(March 6, 1831 – 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
General-in-chief
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
.
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