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Unlike Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen.
William T. Sherman, whose controversial Civil War-era reputations
persist today, Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan has been largely
untouched by controversy. In LITTLE PHIL, historian Eric J.
Wittenberg reassesses the war record of a man long considered one
of the Union Army’s greatest generals. From his earliest days at
West Point, Phil Sheridan refused to play by the rules. He was
fortunate to receive merely a suspension, rather than expulsion,
when as a cadet he charged a superior officer with a bayonet.
Although he achieved fame as a cavalryman late in the Civil War,
Sheridan actually began the conflict as an infantry commander and
initially knew little of the mounted service. In his first effort
as a cavalry commander with the Army of the Potomac in the spring
of 1864, he gave a performance that Wittenberg argues has long been
overrated. Later that year in the Shenandoah Valley, where Sheridan
secured his legendary reputation, he benefited greatly from the
tactical ability of his subordinates and from his huge manpower
advantage against the beleaguered Confederate troops of Lt. Gen.
Jubal Early. Sheridan was ultimately rewarded for numerous acts of
insubordination against his superiors throughout the war, while he
punished similar traits in his own officers. Further, in his combat
reports and postwar writings, he often manipulated facts to show
himself in the best possible light, ensuring an exalted place in
history. Thus, Sheridan successfully foisted his own version of
history on the American public. This controversial new study
challenges the existing literature on Phil Sheridan and adds
valuable insight to our understanding of this famous, but
altogether fallible, warrior. |
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