PERSONAL MEMOIRS P. H. SHERIDAN. VOLUME I. CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II. ORDERED TO FORT DUNCAN, TEXAS "NORTHERS" SCOUTING
CHAPTER III. ORDERED TO FORT READING, CAL. A DANGEROUS
CHAPTER IV. "OLD RED" SKILLFUL SHOOTING YAKIMA WAR A
CHAPTER V. AN INDIAN CONFEDERATION MASSACRE AT THE CASCADES OF
CHAPTER VI. MISDIRECTED VENGEANCE HONORABLE MENTION CHANGE OF
CHAPTER VII. LEARNING THE CHINOOK LANGUAGE STRANGE INDIAN
CHAPTER VIII. AUDITING ACCOUNTS CHIEF QUARTERMASTER AND
CHAPTER IX. EXPEDITION TO BOONEVILLE DESTROYING
CHAPTER X. IN CAMP NEAR RIENZI GENERAL GRANGER A VALUABLE
CHAPTER XI. GOOD ADVICE FROM GENERAL NELSON HIS TRAGIC
CHAPTER XII. MOVING TO BOWLING GREEN JAMES CARD, THE SCOUT AND
CHAPTER XIII. ASSAULT ON OUR RIGHT FLANK OCCUPYING A NEW
CHAPTER XIV. APPOINTED A MAJOR-GENERAL THE SECRET EXPEDITION
CHAPTER XV. ORDERED TO OCCUPY BRIDGEPORT A SPY THE BATTLE OF
CHAPTER XVI. AT CHATTANOOGA THE ENEMY FORTIFIES LOOKOUT
CHAPTER XVII. ORDERED TO RETURN TO CHATTANOOGA MARCH TO
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX. THE EXPEDITION STARTS DESTROYING
CHAPTER XX. GENERAL WILSON'S ADVANCE TOWARD HANOVER COURT
CHAPTER XXI. THE MOVEMENT TO THE JAMES THE SECOND
CHAPTER XXII. GENERAL WILSON'S RAID DESTROYING RAILROADS HIS
CHAPTER XXIII. GENERAL HUNTER'S SUCCESSFUL MARCH AND SUBSEQUENT
CHAPTER XXIV. MOVING ON GENERAL EARLY GENERAL GRANT'S LETTER
Title: The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Vol. 1
Author: General Philip Henry Sheridan
Language: English
Produced by David Widger
PERSONAL MEMOIRES OF P. H. SHERIDAN, VOLUME 1.
By Philip Henry Sheridan
PREFACE
When, yielding to the solicitations of my friends, I finally decided to write these Memoirs, the greatest difficulty which confronted me was that of recounting my share in the many notable events of the last three decades, in which I played a part, without entering too fully into the history of these years, and at the same time without giving to my own acts an unmerited prominence. To what extent I have overcome this difficulty I must leave the reader to judge.
In offering this record, penned by my own hand, of the events of my life, and of my participation in our great struggle for national existence, human liberty, and political equality, I make no pretension to literary merit; the importance of the subject-matter of my narrative is my only claim on the reader's attention.
Respectfully dedicating this work to my comrades in arms during the War of the Rebellion, I leave it as a heritage to my children, and as a source of information for the future historian.
P. H. SHERIDAN.
Nonguitt, Mass., August 2, 1888
