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Philip Henry Sheridan (Condado de Cavan, Irlanda, 6 de marzo de 1831 - Nonquitt, Bristol County, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos, 5 de agosto de 1888) fue un oficial de carrera del Ejército de los Estados Unidos y general del Ejército de la Unión en la guerra civil estadounidense.
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 de mar. de 2010 · Philip Sheridan was a Civil War Union general who was prominently involved in the victorious Shenandoah Valley Campaign and the Battle of Five Forks.
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.
Philip H. Sheridan 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. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (1853), Sheridan served mostly at frontier.
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12 de ene. de 2024 · Philip Henry Sheridan was a prominent Union general during the American Civil War and a career army officer, who rose to the position of general-in-chief of the United States Army before his death in 1888.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Sheridan was called east to serve as a captain in the 13th US Infantry in southwest Missouri. In late May 1862, he was appointed colonel of the 2nd Michigan Cavalry, and just over one month later, distinguished himself during a raid at Booneville, Mississippi.
