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Authors: Joseph Wheelan
Terrible Swift Sword (78 page)
conducts winter camp raid
dislike of Custer
at Little Big Horn
Northern Plains campaign
Seward, William
opposition to intervention in Mexico
Shad bake
Shanks, William F. G.
Shenandoah Valley
burned
geography and climate
importance of
knowledge, of geography
mapped, by Meigs
settlers
Shenandoah Valley, importance of
Sheridan, Irene (formerly Rucker)
Sheridan, Irene (Philip's daughter)
Sheridan, John (Philip's brother)
Sheridan, John (Philip's father)
Sheridan, Louise (Philip's daughter)
Sheridan, Mary Meehagh (Philip's mother)
Sheridan, Mary (Philip's daughter)
Sheridan, Michael (Philip's brother)
revised
Personal Memoirs
Personal Memoirs
Sheridan, Patrick (Philip's brother)
Sheridan, Philip Henry
achievements, Reconstruction
advocates military oversight, of Indian Bureau
and Andrew Johnson
appointed Cavalry Corps commander
appointed Middle Military Division commander
at Appomattox
assigned to Army headquarters
assumes command of the Cavalry Corps
battle for Middle Cascades blockhouse
and Battle of Cedar Creek
and Battle of Chickamauga
on Battle of Stones River
birthplace
on buffalo extermination
builds corduroy roads
on burning of Shenandoah Valley
career and accomplishments
on Cavalry's performance
charged with disobedience
at Chattanooga
children
and citizen marched to Buffalo Creek
closes escape route to Lynchburg
on Cold Harbor battle
as commander of 2nd Michigan Cavalry
commands Army of the Shenandoah
commands Department of the Missouri
commands Fifth Military District
commemorative stamps and coins
commended
commends the wounded
as commissary quartermaster
conducts forensic audit
and Custer
at Darbytown, Virginia
death
deployed to Kentucky
detractors
disagrees with Grant's strategy
dissatisfaction, with Warren
dislike of Texas
early life and education
education
ends mission to Charlottesville
excluded, from surrender ceremony
and execution of deserters
family life
first commission
foul language
at Franco-Prussian War
on freed slaves
funeral
gathers intelligence
and George Crook
given command of Western forces
and Grant
at Gravelly Run, with Grant and his staff
and Great Fire of 1871
on Hazen's confiscation of guns
on his patriotism
homage to
home, in Chicago
home, in Washington
implements martial law
impressions of German and French armies
insubordinate to Meade
leadership
leads Great Plains hunting parties
on leaving his men
letter, from John Mosby
and Libbie Custer
life, in Chicago
life, in Washington
and Lincoln
after Little Big Horn
and Louisiana Levee Board
march to Petersburg
on march to rejoin Grant
on march to Waynesboro
marries Irene Rucker
and Meade
mediates dispute, between Indians and cattlemen
meets with Gordon
meets with Grant and Sherman
meets with Stanton and Halleck
on Mexican border
modernizes the army
on New Orleans riot
Northern Plains campaign
and offensive warfare
orders “drubbing” for Rosser
outside Richmond
painting, commemorative
as pallbearer
papers destroyed
Personal Memoirs
personality
physical appearance
plan to eliminate reservation system
plans capture of Spotsylvania
plans to battle Confederate Cavalry Corps
political ambition, lack of
political mission in New Orleans
popularity
as president of National Rifle Association
promoted, at start of Civil War
promoted to brigade commander
promoted to brigadier general
promoted to general of the army
promoted to lieutenant general
promoted to major general
promoted to major general of the regular army
promoted to second lieutenant
pursues Early
pursuit of Lee's army
quote on dead Indians
raids Cheyenne winter camp
rebuked, by Stanton
relieved of command of the Fifth Military District
reputation
rethinks Indian strategy
returns, to Battle of Cedar Creek
returns to Washington
role, as lieutenant general
at Sailor's Creek
sends divisions to destroy Virginia Central Railroad
sent to Louisiana
on Shenandoah victory
and Sidnayoh (Indian woman)
soldiers' assessment of
Southern Plains campaign
as speaker at veterans' reunions
spending
sponsors ethnological study of Plains Indians
and Stanton
strategy, for Five Forks
studies battle reports, of Little Big Horn
sued, by Louisiana farmer
summer cottage
Third Battle of Winchester
topographical and geographical knowledge
on total war
tours Europe
troops ordered to Knoxville
on truce
use of profanity
victories and their consequences
visits Little Big Horn
visits Rebecca Wright
wins Sherman's praise
and Yellowstone National Park
Sheridan, Philip, Jr.
Sheridan, Rosa (Philip's sister)
Sheridan Equestrian Statue, Washington, D.C.
“Sheridan's Ride” (poem, Read)
Sherman, Francis
Sherman, William Tecumseh
on buffalo extermination
capture of Atlanta
commands Division of the Missouri
drafts army code of regulations
letters, to Sheridan and Ewing
march from Atlanta to the sea
on Native Americans
as pallbearer
relieved of command
requests that Sheridan join his army
retires
on Sheridan
and total war
Shiloh, Battle of
Shoshone Indians
Sidnayoh (Willamette Valley Indian woman)
Sigel, Franz
“The Flying Dutchman,”
Sill, Fort
Sill, Joshua
Single-shot muzzleloaders
Sioux agencies, transferred to Army control
Sioux Indians
Sitting Bull (Sioux chief)
in Canada
surrenders
vision
6th Michigan Cavalry
at Third Battle of Winchester
Slaves.
see also
African Americans
see also
African Americans
Slocum, Henry W.
Smallpox, Indians infected, intentionally
Smith, Edmund Kirby
Snake dance, essay on (Bourke)
Society of Friends (Quakers)
Solomon's Avengers
Somers
(brig)
(brig)
Songs, popular
South Carolina
South Dakota, Black Hills
Southall, S. V.
Southern Plains campaign
Native Americans surrender
Palo Duro Canyon
violation of Mexican border
Southside Railroad, severed
Southside Railroad, targeted
Spencer (Chinook chief)
Spencer, Christopher
Spencer repeating rifle
Spotsylvania
Spotsylvania Court House
battlefield, later
casualties
Spotted Bear (Sioux chief)
Spotted Tail (Brule Sioux Indian)
Spying, spies
counterintelligence
female
Henry K. Young's unit
rewarded
Squaws, forced to help soldiers
St. Louis Democrat
St. Louis Times Journal
St. Matthew's Catholic Church, Washington, D.C.
Stager, Anson
Stanbery, Henry
Stanton, Edwin
meets Sheridan
meets with Sheridan
promotes Sheridan
rebukes Sheridan
and Reconstruction
on Sheridan
“Star-Spangled Banner,”
Statue of Liberty
Stevens, George
Stones River, Tennessee, battle of
casualties
consequences of
punishment for cowardice
Round Forest (“Hell's Half-Acre,” “Slaughter Pen”)
Sheridan's battle report
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Strachan, Hew
Strategy, Union
ruse, at Petersburg, Virginia
Stuart, Flora (formerly Cooke)
Stuart, Jeb
dies
at Gettysburg
as invincible
life and career
mortally wounded
physical appearance
Suffrage, African American
Suffrage, former Confederates
Sully, Alfred
Sundry Civil Appropriations Act
Surrender, at Appomattox Court House
Swatara
(man-of-war)
(man-of-war)
Tecumseh (Shawnee Chief)
Teller, Henry
Tennessee
African Americans in
Chattanooga
Nashville, as Union base
postwar
Tullahoma, as Confederate base
Tenure of Office Act
Terrill, William
Terry, Alfred
at Little Big Horn
report, from Little Big Horn
Texas
African Americans in
border towns
buffalo herds, exterminated
under Division of the Missouri
federal soldiers, murdered
Indian raids
under martial law
Palo Duro Canyon
Sheridan's dislike of
Theela sheridani
(butterfly)
(butterfly)
3rd Massachusetts Cavalry
38th Massachusetts Infantry
Thoburn, Joseph
Thom, George
Thomas, George
as “The Rock of Chickamauga,”
Three-fifths clause, United States Constitution
Three-Finger Jack (Ranald Mackenzie).
see also
Mackenzie, Ranald
see also
Mackenzie, Ranald
Throckmorton, James
Thruston, Gates
Time
magazine
magazine
Timur
Tolles, Cornelius
Tom's Brook, Battle at (“Woodstock races”)
Tonto Basin campaign
Torbert, Alfred
at Cedar Creek
commands Cavalry
disabled
Total war
and Germany
on Native Americans
Sheridan on
Sheridan's legacy
Trail of Tears
Traveller (horse)
Treaties, Native American
Black Hills
Fort Laramie treaties
Medicine Lodge Treaty
Tredegar Works gun makers
Tremain, Henry
Trevilian Station, Central Virginia Railroad
Trotter (Osage warrior)
Trowel bayonet
Tullahoma, Tennessee
Turkey Foots (boy gang)
Turnbull House
Union Pacific Railroad
University of Virginia
Upton, Emory
US Geological Survey
US Military Academy
V Corps
Van Dorn's Rebels
Vancouver, Fort
Vest, George
Veterans' groups
Victor Emmanuel, king of Italy
Victoria, queen of England
Vindication of Republicanism
Virginia Central Railroad
destroyed
targeted
Virginia Military Institute, burned
Virginia Secession Convention
Volunteer units
Von Bismarck, Otto
adopts total war
on Sheridan's skills
Voorhies, Albert
Walker, Aldace
Walla Walla Indians
Wallace, Fort
Wallace, Lew
War Department, orders rewritten by
Warren, Gouverneur
as cartographer
court of inquiry conducted
at Five Forks
at Gettysburg
march to Petersburg
relieved of command
at Spotsylvania Court House
Washakie, Fort
Washington, D. C., postwar
Washington College, looted
Washington Monument, completed
Washington Territory
Washita River, Indian Territory
Waterloo of the Confederacy (Five Forks).
see
Five Forks
see
Five Forks
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