Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan 2 vols. HC 1st Edition 1888 Civil War

  

Sheridan, General United States Army. Hardcover, 500/486 pages with maps, illustrations and index. Sheridan recounts his life as a West Point cadet, frontier soldier, noted Civil War cavalry commander, and American military observer to the Franco-Prussian War.

When, yielding to the solicitations of my friends, I finally decided to write these Memoirs, the greatest difficulty which confronted me was that of recounting my share in the many notable events of the last three decades, in which I played a part, without entering too fully into the history of these years, and at the same time without giving to my own acts an unmerited prominence. To what extent I have overcome this difficulty I must leave the reader to judge.

In offering this record, penned by my own hand, of the events of my life, and of my participation in our great struggle for national existence, human liberty, and political equality, I make no pretension to literary merit; the importance of the subject-matter of my narrative is my only claim on the reader's attention. Respectfully dedicating this work to my comrades in arms during the War of the Rebellion, I leave it as a heritage to my children, and as a source of information for the future historian. Lieutenant Williamson's Trail from Fort Reading, Cal. Lieutenant Sheridan's Fight at the Cascades of the Columbia in 1856.

General Sheridan's War Horse "Rienzi". Map Showing the Field of Operations of the Army of the Cumberland. Positions of General Sheridan's Division in the Battle of Chickamauga.

Portrait of General Wesley Merritt. Portrait of General George A. Portrait of General Sheridan During the War. Portrait of General James H. Positions of General Sheridan's Division prior to the.

Third Expedition-Raid to Roanoke Station. General Map, Embracing all the Expeditions.

Map of the Shenandoah Valley. Portrait of Miss Rebecca M. Facsimile Letter from Abraham Lincoln, Sept.

Facsimile Letter from Abraham Lincoln, Oct. Portrait of General William H. Portrait of General George Crook. Battlefield of Fisher's Hill. Fourth Expedition-Merritt's Raid to Loudoun. Fifth Expedition-Torbert's Raid to Gordonsville.

General Sheridan's Headquarters at Cedar Creek. Portrait of General Horatio G. Battlefield of Dinwiddie Court House. Battlefield of Sailor's Creek. Eighth Expedition-To the Dan River and Return.

Map Showing Parts of France, Belgium, and Germany.