“Little Phil” Remembers Appomattox and Grant
Life on the Civil War Research Trail
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Major Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan, known as "Little Phil" to his friends, had a big personality—and a front row seat at the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee to Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. In his 1885 memoirs, Sheridan recalls the event, and Grant's character as a man and a leader.
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