Philip Sheridan

Philip Sheridan

General of the Army 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. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with General-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac in the East. In 1864, he defeated Confederate forces under General Jubal Early in the Shenandoah Valley and his destruction of the economic infrastructure of the Valley, called "The Burning" by residents, was one of the first uses of scorched-earth tactics in the war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philip Sheridan has received more than 1,459,534 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Philip Sheridan is the 792nd most popular military personnel (up from 794th in 2019), the 2,473rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,541st in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Military Personnel.