Terrible Swift Sword
The Life of General p Carlop H. Sheridan

Easily one of the finest biographies and Civil War histories I have ever read. A very exciting read about the career of one of America's best generals. Sheridan was brilliant and ruthless on the field of battle, and Joseph Wheelan gives him fair and balanced treatment in this fascinating recounting......more

General Phil Sheridan was a major figure in the Civil War and continued a visible military career thereafter. Part of his military record is controversial--his total war strategy against Confederate territory in the Shenandoah Valley and against Plains Indians later on. The book does a solid job in......more

Outstanding I have always considered myself a student of the Civil War. I have read volumes on Battles, Biographies, Autobiographies and Individual Diaries. Philip Sheridan has been covered or at least mentioned in many if not all. For some reason I never read anything that concentrated on Sheridan,......more

The best summary of the life of General Sheridan that emerges from the pages of Wheelan's fascinating biography is Sheridan's own reaction to the news of Lee's surrender at Appomattox: "Damn them. I wish they had held out an hour longer and I would have whipped hell out of them." Of the great triumv......more

Having recently finished W.T. Sherman's autobiography, one can only image the additional background details that could have been gleaned about Sheridan had his private papers not been incinerated in The Great Chicago Fire. I liked the author's insights regarding Sheridan's upbringing and later famil......more