1883 General Philip Sheridan Handwritten Autographed Signed Letter

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1883 General Philip Sheridan
Handwritten
Autographed Signed Letter.  A historic piece.
(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
Lt. Gen.
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 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. In 1865, his cavalry pursued Gen.
Robert E. Lee
and was instrumental in forcing his surrender at
Appomattox
.