Sheridan at Five Forks: "Energies like lightning"
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Up until the Battle of Five Forks on April 1, 1865, Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan was more brute than brains, observed the war correspondent George Alfred "Gath" Townsend. But in this engagement, Gath notes, Sheridan proved he could also be a master strategist.
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