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Philip Henry Sheridan (Albany, 6 marzo 1831 – Nonquitt, 5 agosto 1888) è stato un generale statunitense. Ufficiale di carriera dell'esercito statunitense, divenne generale dell'Unione nella Guerra di secessione americana.
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.
24 mar 2010 · Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-88) was an aggressive Union general during the American Civil War (1861-65). He demonstrated his capacity for command during assignments on the U.S. frontier and in...
In the fall of 1861, Sheridan was a staff officer for Maj. Gen. Henry Halleck. He later became quartermaster general in the Army of Southwest Missouri. With the help of influential friends he was appointed Colonel of the 2nd Michigan Cavalry in May, 1862.
8 apr 2024 · Philip H. Sheridan (born March 6, 1831, Albany, N.Y., U.S.?—died Aug. 5, 1888, Nonquitt, Mass.) was a highly successful U.S. cavalry officer whose driving military leadership in the last year of the American Civil War was instrumental in defeating the Confederate Army.
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Generale americano, nato ad Albany (New York) il 6 marzo 1831, morto a Nonquitt, Massachusetts, il 5 agosto 1888. Uscì dall'Accademia militare di West Point nel 1853 con il grado di sottotenente di fanteria e servì sulla frontiera nelle guerriglie contro gl'Indiani.
Philip Henry Sheridan (1831–1888) Speaking about General Philip H. Sheridan after the war, Ulysses S. Grant said that “as a soldier, as a commander of troops, as a man capable of doing all that is possible with any number of men,” there is no one greater than he.
