Personal Memoirs Of P H Sheridan, General US Army by P H Sheridan.

Hardcover. Large 8vo. Charles L. Webster and Co., New York. 1888. 2 volumes. xiv, 500 pages; xii, 486 pgs. Illustrated with maps and illustrations. First Edition/First Printing.

Bound in green cloth with gilt image of Sheridan present to the boards and gilt titled spines. Not mint but very nice set, some light wear to the edge of one of the front covers the other pretty nice. Gilding still strong. Contents clean, except that frontis illustrations left shadows on the corresponding tissue guards. Bindings sufficiently tight. Overall condition very nice for heavy volumes of this age.

About General Sheridan:

General Philip Henry Sheridan was born on March 6, 1831 in Albany, New York. Sheridan served in the Civil War and other conflicts and eventually became the highest ranking general in the United States Army. Sheridan graduated from West Point Military Academy. His early service in the Civil War took place in the west. Later, General Grant transferred Sheridan from the Western theater of war to command the Union Cavalry in Virginia. Sheridan devised raids against weakened Confederate positions and ultimately trapped General Lee's retreating army and forced the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.Sheridan also oversaw reconstruction in Louisiana and Texas, and engaged in conflicts with tribes on the great plains. In 1888 he attained the rank of General of the Army, the highest rank in the United States Army.