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General Philip Sheridan arrived on the battlefield following his famous and dramatic ride from his headquarters in Winchester. Along the way he ordered Captain (and future U.S. President) William McKinley to stop retreating units and direct them back to the fighting.
Philip Henry Sheridan was born in Albany, New York, in 1831. After attending school in Albany, he was accepted into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in July 1848. During his time at West Point , however, he got in a quarrel with a fellow cadet (military student).
Philip H. Sheridan. Major General (USA) March 6, 1831 — August 5, 1888 . In the fall of 1861, Sheridan was ordered to travel to Jefferson Barracks, near St. Louis, Missouri, for assignment to the 13th U.S. Infantry.
Nov 21, 2017 · The Gen. Philip Sheridan statue at the corner of Sheridan Road and Belmont Avenue in Lincoln Park dates from circa 1928. Sheridan was a career Army officer who fought in the Civil War.
Before he gained fame as commander of the cavalry forces of the Army of the Potomac during Gen. U.S. Grant's overland campaign during the Civil War, Philip Henry Sheridan served in Oregon on the Columbia River and at the Grand Ronde Reservation.
Philip Henry Sheridan. Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888), American soldier, was noted for his part in the 1864-1865 Virginia campaigns of the Civil War. Philip H. Sheridan was born in Albany, N.Y., on March 6, 1831, the son of Irish immigrant parents who soon moved to Somerset, Ohio. At the age of 14 he went to work as a store clerk.
On April 1, 1865, Union Gen. Philip Sheridan’s cavalry force made it to the crossroads at Five Forks but found Confederate Gen. George E. Pickett’s men entrenched. Sheridan decided to attack the Confederate line but, in doing so, needed infantry support from Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren’s V Corps.
