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Major General Philip H. Sheridan

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Title: The life and campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. U. S. Grant, from his boyhood to the surrender of Lee
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Headley, P. C. (Phineas Camp), 1819-1903
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Publisher: New York, The Derby and Miller publishing co.
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eral Sheridan would not be called a handsome man.Sheridan is barely five feet six inches in night. His bodyis stout, his lower limbs rather short. Deep and broad inthe chest, compact and firm in muscle, active and vigorousin motion, there was not a pound of superfluous flesh onhis body at the time we write. His face and head showedhis Celtic origin. Head long, well balanced in shape, andcovered with a full crop of close, curling, dark hair. Hisforehead moderately high, but quite broad ; perceptiveswell developed, high cheek-bones, dark beard, closelycovering a square lower jaw, and firm-lined mouth* cleardark eyes, which were of a most kindly character, com-pleted the tout ensemble memory gives at the call. Al-ways neat in person, and generally dressed in uniform,Captain Sheridan looked, as he was, a quiet, unassuming,but determined officer and gentleman, whose modestywould always have been a barrier to great renown, hadnot the golden gates of opportunity been unbarred for hispassage.
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SKETCHES OF LEADING UNION GENERALS. 457 CHAPTER XXII. THE LEADING GENERALS IN THE CAMPAIGN. Sketches of Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman.—Major-General GeorgeH. Thomas.—Major-General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick.—Major-General Oliver0. Howard.—Major-General James Birdseye McPherson. Next in extent of command, and its importance in thevast field of strife, was the Department of the Mississippi,under the command of that gifted and splendid officer,Major-General Sherman, in whose rare company of sub-ordinate chiefs were Thomas, Howard, Sehofield, McPher-son, and Kilpatrick. Brief biographies of these brave men, at this period ofrest and yet of preparation for the decisive campaign of thewar, will gratify a rational curiosity, and add a personalinterest to the narrative of the momentous times. William Tecumseh Sherman, Whose ancestors came from England and settled in Strat-ford, Connecticut, in 1634, was born in Lancaster, Ohio,February 8, 1820. His father, an eminent jurist of th

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