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Collection Philip Henry Sheridan Papers

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Selected related archival collections in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress

Selected Published Resources

  • Brockett, L. P. Our Great Captain: Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan, and Farragut. New York, C. B. Richardson, 1865. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive. Reprinted, 1866
  • Burr, Frank A. and Richard J. Hinton. "Little Phil" and His Troopers: The Life of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan. … Providence, R.I.: J. A. & R. A. Reid, 1888. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive.
  • Catton, Bruce. “Sheridan at Five Forks,” Journal of Southern History 21, no. 3 (Aug. 1955): 305-315. LC catalog record.
  • Chronicling America, digitized historic American newspapers, available online.
  • Coffey, David. Sheridan's Lieutenants: Phil Sheridan, His Generals, and the Final Year of the Civil War. Wilmington, Del.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005. LC catalog record.
  • Cozzens, Peter. The Earth is Weeping: The Indian Wars for the American West, 1866-1891. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. LC catalog record.
  • Davies, Henry Eugene. General Sheridan. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive.
  • Dawson, Joseph G., III. “General Phil Sheridan and Military Reconstruction in Louisiana,” Civil War History 24, no. 2 (June 1978): 133-151. LC catalog record.
  • Denison, Charles Wheeler. Illustrated Life, Campaigns and Public Services of Philip H. Sheridan. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1865. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Drake, William F. Little Phil: The Story of General Philip Henry Sheridan. Prospect, Conn.: Biographical Publishing Company, 2005. WorldCat catalog record External.
  • Faulkner, Joseph. The Life of Philip Henry Sheridan, the Dashing, Brave and Successful Soldier. New York: Hurst & Co., 1888. LC catalog record. Available online through Internet Archive.
  • Frost, Lawrence A. The Phil Sheridan Album: A Pictorial Biography of Phillip Henry Sheridan. Seattle, Wash.: Superior Publishing Co., 1968. LC catalog record.
  • Gallagher, Gary W., ed. The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. LC catalog record.
  • Gallagher, Gary W., ed. Struggle for the Shenandoah: Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991. LC catalog record.
  • Gardiner, Asa Bird. The Battles of "Gravelly Run", "Dinwiddie Court-house", and "Five Forks", Va., 1865. Argument on Behalf of Lieut Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, U.S.A., Respondent …. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1881. LC catalog record. Available online through Internet Archive.
  • Geography & Map Division, Library of Congress. Several maps documenting Sheridan’s campaigns are available online.
  • Grant, Ulysses S. The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Edited by John Y. Simon. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967-2012. LC catalog record. Available online External through Mississippi State University Libraries, courtesy of The Ulysses S. Grant Association.
  • Greiner, Henry C. General Phil Sheridan as I Knew Him, Playmate—Comrade—Friend. Chicago: J. S. Hyland and Co., 1908. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive.
  • Grimsley, Mark. The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. LC catalog record.
  • Headley, P. C. Fighting Phil: The Life and Military Career of Philip Henry Sheridan, General of the Army of the United States. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1889. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive.
  • Heatwole, John L. The Burning: Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. Charlottesville, Va.: Rockbridge Publishing, 1998. LC catalog record.
  • Hergesheimer, Joseph. Sheridan: A Military Narrative. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1931. LC catalog record.
  • Hoig, Stan. The Battle of the Washita: The Sheridan-Custer Indian Campaign of 1867-69. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976. LC catalog record. Reprinted, 1979.
  • Hutton, Paul Andrew. Phil Sheridan and His Army. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. LC catalog record. Reprint, 1999.
  • Hutton, Paul Andrew. “Phil Sheridan's Frontier,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 38, no. 1 (Winter 1988): 16-31. LC catalog record.
  • Hutton, Paul Andrew. “Phil Sheridan's Pyrrhic Victory: The Piegan Massacre, Army Politics, and the Transfer Debate,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 32, no. 2 (Spring 1982): 32-43. LC catalog record.
  • Keim, De B. Randolph. Sheridan's Troopers on the Borders: A Winter Campaign on the Plains. Philadelphia: D. McKay, 1885. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. Reprinted, 1970, 1977, 1985.
  • Larke, Julian K. The Life of Gen. P. H. Sheridan, the Hero of the Shenandoah. New York: T. R. Dawley, 1864. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Lepa, Jack H. The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2003. LC catalog record.
  • Levine, Richard R. “Indian Fighters and Indian Reformers: Grant's Indian Peace Policy and the Conservative Consensus,” Civil War History 31, no. 4 (Dec. 1985): 329-352. LC catalog record.
  • Lewis, Thomas A. The Guns of Cedar Creek. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. LC catalog record.
  • “The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America,” online resource. Includes period sheet music related primarily to Sheridan’s Civil War campaigns.
  • Lincoln, Abraham. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by Roy P. Basler. New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953-1955. LC catalog record. Available online External courtesy of the Abraham Lincoln Association.
  • Mahr, Theodore C. The Battle of Cedar Creek: Showdown in the Shenandoah, October 1-30, 1864: Early's Valley Campaign. Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, 1992. LC catalog record.
  • McClellan, Carswell. Notes on the Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan. St. Paul, Minn.: Press of W. L. Banning, Jr., 1889. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Morris, Roy, Jr. Sheridan: The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan. New York: Crown, 1992. LC catalog record. https://lccn.loc.gov/91043304 Reprint, 1993.
  • Naroll, Raoul S. “Sheridan and Cedar Creek—A Reappraisal,” Military Affairs 16, no. 4 (Winter 1952): 153-168. LC catalog record.
  • Newhall, Frederic Cushman. With General Sheridan in Lee's Last Campaign. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1866. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Newhall, Frederic Cushman. With Sheridan in the Final Campaign against Lee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. LC catalog record.
  • Nicholas, Richard Ludlum. Sheridan's James River Campaign of 1865 through Central Virginia. Scottsville, Va.: Historic Albemarle, 2011. LC catalog record.
  • O'Connor, Richard. Sheridan, the Inevitable. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953. LC catalog record.
  • Patchan, Scott C. The Last Battle of Winchester: Phil Sheridan, Jubal Early, and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, August 7-September 19, 1864. El Dorado Hills, Calif.: Savas Beatie, 2013. LC catalog record.
  • Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Available online. The site offers a number of photographs and illustrations of or including Philip Henry Sheridan.
  • Read, Thomas Buchanan. Sheridan's Ride. New York, Privately printed, 1867. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive. Illustrated edition, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1891. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive.
  • Reeves, Thomas C. “President Arthur in Yellowstone National Park,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 19, no. 3 (Summer 1969): 18-29. LC catalog record.
  • Richter, William L. “General Phil Sheridan, the Historians, and Reconstruction,” Civil War History 33, no. 2 (June 1987): 131-154. LC catalog record.
  • Rister, Carl Coke. Border Command: General Phil Sheridan in the West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1944. LC catalog record. Reprinted, 1974.
  • Sarf, Wayne Michael. “A Winter Campaign: General Philip H. Sheridan's Operations on the Southern Plains, 1868-9,” Ph. D. dissertation, City University of New York, 2001. WorldCat catalog record External.
  • Sheridan, Philip Henry. Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan. General United States Army. New York: C. L. Webster & Company, 1888. 2 vols. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. Reprints, 1977, 1992, 2006.
  • Sheridan, Philip Henry. Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan. General United States Army. New and enlarged edition. 2 vols. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1902. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Sheridan, Philip Henry. Record of Engagements with Hostile Indians within the Military Division of the Missouri, from 1868 to 1882, Lieutenant-General P. H. Sheridan, commanding. Comp. at Headquarters, Military Division of the Missouri, from Official Records. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1882. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Sherman, William T. Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865. Edited by Brooks D. Simpson and Jean V. Berlin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. LC catalog record.
  • Simson, Jay W. Crisis of Command in the Army of the Potomac: Sheridan's Search for an Effective General. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2008. LC catalog record.
  • Smith, Sherry L. The View from Officers' Row: Army Perceptions of Western Indians. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1990. LC catalog record.
  • Stackpole, Edward J. Sheridan in the Shenandoah: Jubal Early’s Nemesis. Harrisburg, Pa., Stackpole Co., 1961. LC catalog record. Reprinted, 1992.
  • Taylor, James E. With Sheridan up the Shenandoah Valley in 1864: Leaves from a Special Artist's Sketchbook and Diary. Cleveland, Ohio: Western Reserve Historical Society, 1989. LC catalog record.
  • Tremain, Henry Edwin. Last Hours of Sheridan's Cavalry: A Reprint of War Memoranda. New York: Bonnell, Silver & Bowers, 1904. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. Available online External through The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection.
  • Utley, Robert Marshall. Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891. New York: Macmillan, 1973. LC catalog record. Reprinted, 1974, 1977, 1984.
  • Van Orden, William H. General Philip H. Sheridan, a Story of His Life and Military Services. New York: Street & Smith, 1896. LC catalog record.
  • Wellman, Paul Iselin. Death on the Prairie: The Thirty Years' Struggle for the Western Plains. New York: Macmillan, 1934. LC catalog record. Reprinted, 1987.
  • Wert, Jeffry D. From Winchester to Cedar Creek: The Shenandoah Campaign of 1864. Carlisle, Pa.: South Mountain Press, 1987. LC catalog record. Reprinted, 1989, 1997, 2010.
  • Wheelan, Joseph. Terrible Swift Sword: The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan. New York: Da Capo Press, 2012. LC catalog record.
  • Wittenberg, Eric J. Glory Enough for All: Sheridan's Second Raid and the Battle of Trevilian Station. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 2001. LC catalog record.
  • Wittenberg, Eric J. Little Phil: A Reassessment of the Civil War Leadership of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 2002. LC catalog record.
  • Wooster, Robert. The Military and United States Indian Policy, 1865-1903. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988. LC catalog record. Reprinted, 1995.
  • Wylie, Paul R. Blood on the Marias: The Baker Massacre. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. LC catalog record.
  • Yenne, Bill. Indian Wars: The Campaign for the American West. Yardley, Pa.: Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2008. LC catalog record.
  • Zeimet, Roger T. “Philip H. Sheridan and the Civil War in the West,” Ph. D. dissertation, Marquette University, 1981. WorldCat catalog record External.