Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals

Philip Henry Sheridan

1831–1888

A hard-driving Union general who rose with striking speed during the Civil War, he became one of the most important and most debated military figures of nineteenth-century America. His career stretched far beyond the war itself, shaping the U.S. Army and the story of the American West.

William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

1820–1891

A fiercely effective Union general, he became one of the defining figures of the American Civil War and one of its most debated. His campaigns through Georgia and the Carolinas helped break the Confederacy and shaped how later generations would think about modern war.