General Philip Sheridan
Character Key Number:
2683
Display Name:
General Philip Sheridan
Sort Name:
Sheridan, General Philip
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
After serving in the Civil War's western theater, the Union general Philip Sheridan came east when Ulysses S. Grant appointed him to command the cavalry forces in the Army of the Potomac. What Gumbault tells Pearson in "The Tall Men" about how "Sheridan's calvary blocked the road from Appomattox to the Valley" at the very end of the war is accurate (54).