Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan General United States Army

While on his meteoric rise in the Union army, Philip H. Sheridan earned the enmity of many Virginians for laying waste to the Shenandoah Valley. His date and place of birth is uncertain, but he himself claimed to have been born in New York in 1831. Although he was destined to come out of the Civil War with the third greatest reputation among the victors, his military career did not begin auspiciously. It took him five years to graduate from West Point (1853) because of an altercation with fellow cadet and future Union general, William R. Terrill.Sheridan, Philip H. is the author of 'Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan General United States Army' with ISBN 9781582181868 and ISBN 1582181861.