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"A brown, chunky little chap, with a long body, short hip and legs, not enough throat to hold him, and such long hands that if his ankles itch he can scratch them without stooping." (Abraham Lincoln talking about Phil Sheridan) In typically the most popular narratives of the Civil Warfare, Union Generals Ulysses S. Give and William Tecumseh Sherman are celebrated as the Union's most successful generals and men who revolutionized total warfare with the use of scorched earth methods. Sherman's March to the Sea continues to be one of the most famous campaigns of the warfare, and he's still widely reviled in the South because of computer. Lost in this common narrative is the actual fact that Sherman's March was preceded by way of a scorched-earth campaign that made Virginia howl, led by "Little Phil" Sheridan. The 5'5" Sheridan was one of the smallest and toughest fighters in the Union Army, whose capacities as both a general of infantry and cavalry made him one of the most valuable and versatile officers in the North. A close associate of Grant's in the Western, Sheridan was so critical that Give brought him east in 1864 and offered him demand of the Union cavalry to handle off resistant to the vaunted JEB Stuart. Despite his successes in the Western and during the Overland Plan, Sheridan's most well-known campaign was in the Shenandoah Valley, which got seen much fighting and Stonewall Jackson's famous 1862 Valley Plan. In 1864, however, Sheridan and his Army of the Shenandoah defeated Jubal Early and systematically demolished the economic infrastructure and viability of the Valley, which have been considered the "breadbasket" of Virginia during the war's prior years. Residents of the Valley simply described Sheridan's campaign as "The Using up". After Sheridan's cavalry demonstrated instrumental in adjoining Lee's army and forcing its surrender at Appomattox, Sheridan got cemented his legacy as one of the biggest Union generals of the Civil Warfare. But he was far from done. During Reconstruction, he was a armed service governor responsible for wanting to pacify Southern civilians in the wake of the Civil Warfare, and it will come as no surprise that Sheridan and Southerners didn't see vision to vision. Sheridan himself famously mentioned, "EASILY owned Tx and Hell, I'd rent Tx and stay in Hell." Sheridan also ran afoul of Leader Andrew Johnson, who later removed him from his post. The rough and acerbic Sheridan was also one of the best ranked officers who fought the Indian Wars in the ages following the Civil Warfare. Notorious for uttering "The sole good Indians I ever before saw were lifeless," which includes since been misattributed into more generalized and bigoted forms, Sheridan's biographers took pains to try to point out that Little Phil wasn't a racist, though there can be no denying he ruthlessly waged warfare on the fantastic Plains to subdue Indigenous American tribes.
