Tonight I found an incredible book review in the Wall Street Journal.
TERRIBLE SWIFT SWORD a biography of General Philip Sheridan written by Joseph Wheelan.
Certainly this must be the book that Tom Egan is getting me for Christmas.
The only serious interruption to Sheridan's campaign occurred in October, at the Battle of Cedar Creek. He was returning from a trip to Washington when his army was surprised by a devastating predawn Confederate attack. Learning of the army's rout, in one of the war's most renowned episodes of singular leadership, Sheridan galloped hellbent to the front, rallied his men, counterattacked and led them on to total victory. The counterattack was spearheaded by one of Sheridan's most aggressive and flamboyant young officer's George Armstrong Custer.
This of course was the attack by Confederate General Jubal Early in the Shenandoah Valley.
Dr. Egan has sent a number of smashing books as you have already heard but are about to hear once more.
The Essex, The Mayflower, The Last Stand, and Empire of the Summer Moon, about the famous Comanche Quanah Parker.
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