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Sheridan the Bold Cavalry Leader from Albany to Fame
A century ago on March 6 1838 Philip Henry Sheridan born in Albany New York rose to fame as a famed Civil War cavalry general nicknamed Fighting Phil and Little Phil. He grew up in Ohio endured early hardship and entered West Point class of 1853 rough around the edges but rising quickly in the Civil War to command the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac and lead notable campaigns in the Shenandoah Valley culminating in Cedar Creek.
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Albany
N. Y
Philip Henry Sheridan
Phil
Paul Revere
Phil Sheridan
Thomas Buchanan
Sheridan
Ohio
Somerset
Perry County
West Point
Academy
Dragoons
Halleck
St. Louis
Second
Michigan Cavalry
United States Volunteers
Perryville
Stone River
Chickamauga
Chattanooga
Army of the Potomac
Shenandoah Valley
Virginia
Read
Winchester
Cedar Creek
Early
George A. Forsythe
Joseph O’keefe
Plains
King William
United States Army
Sherman
Congress
Albert Bushnell Hart