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Sheridan’s Ride and Ranger: The Civil War Hero Recalled
Mrs. Philip Henry Sheridan’s death in Washington renews focus on Gen. Philip H. Sheridan. The article recounts his early scrappy rise from Ohio to West Point, Civil War cavalry feats, Cedar Creek victory, and postwar commands, noting stories behind the famous Ride and the horse Rienzi Winchester now at the National Museum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip Henry Sheridan
Washington
Phil Sheridan
Sheridan
Phil
Murat
Tice
Napoleon
Leipzig
Tolentino
Waterloo
Joseph Mhergesheimer
South
North
Phillip Henry Sheridan
West Point
Academy
Indiana
Oregon
Dragoons
Halleck
Second Michigan Cavalry
United States Volunteers
Contamand
Perryville
Stone River
Chickamauga
Chattanooga
Army of the Potomac
Shenandoah Valley
Virginia
Jubal A. Early
Read
Winchester
Cedar Creek
Rienzi
Early
Mill Creek
George A. Forsythe
Joseph O'Keefe
Lee
Appomattox
Plains
King William
United States Army
Sherman
Congress
Henry “Wadsworth Longfellow
Paul Revere
Thomas Buchanan Read
Battlefront
Torbert
Hazard Stevens
A. Brown
Wright
Rienzi, Miss
Archibald P. Campbell
Museum of the Military Service Institute
Governor's Island
N. Y
Ambrose Kennedy
Rhode Island
National Museum