Lee attempted to link up with the remnants of Confederate General Joe Johnson's defeated army ; however, Union cavalry forces led by Maj. Gen. Phil Sheridan were able to stop the two armies from converging.

Custer, now commanding the 3rd Division, followed Sheridan to the Shenandoah Valley where they defeated the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. Jubal A.

Sheridan and Custer, having defeated Early, returned to the main Union Army lines at the Siege of Petersburg, where they spent the winter.

Sheridan was defeated in the 1987 nonpartisan blanket primary by Jerry A. Thomas, a physician in Franklinton.

The Vorlon's encounter suit is destroyed, and the Vorlon, revealed as a tentacled being, is defeated by Sheridan, Lorien and a remnant of Ambassador Kosh.

After martial law was declared, Sheridan defeated the Nightwatch forces by luring them into a trap.

As Sheridan began to withdraw down the Valley and Early began to pursue, Union cavalry defeated Rosser at Tom's Brook on October 9.

After the war, Sheridan was one of a group of Northern officials who moved in to administer the defeated Southern states ( often derisively referred to by Southerners as " carpetbaggers ").

While a number of New Deal supporters won primary elections, such as Sen. Alben Barkley in Kentucky, who defeated future baseball commissioner Happy Chandler, Sen. James P. Pope of Idaho, a prominent New Deal supporter, lost his bid for re-nomination, as did California senator William McAdoo, though McAdoo's Democratic opponent Sheridan Downey had campaigned as a liberal New Dealer who would also do more to improve pension plans.

Subsequently, operating under the command of Sheridan, it defeated Confederate forces at Sayler's Creek on April 6, 1865, resulting in the capture of a large number of Confederate soldiers, including Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell.

Early's army was eventually defeated in the Valley by Philip Sheridan and they rejoined Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia for the Siege of Petersburg and the Appomattox Campaign.

On April 1, 1865, at the end of the Siege of Petersburg, Union Army cavalry forces and V Corps infantry forces of the Army of the Potomac under the command of cavalry corps commander, Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, defeated a large force of Confederates from the Army of Northern Virginia under the command of Maj. Gen. George Pickett at the Battle of Five Forks, Virginia at the western end of the Confederate lines.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.

* 1864 – Battle of Cedar Creek – Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroys a Confederate Army under Jubal Early.

After a brief delay, the Army of the Cumberland, led by Sheridan and Wood, stormed over and captured the first Confederate rifle entrenchments.

When Sheridan reported suffering attacks by irregular Confederate cavalry under John S. Mosby, Grant recommended rounding up their families for imprisonment as hostages at Ft. McHenry.

Among them were Phil Sheridan ( Union Army ); William Wing Loring ( Confederate ); John B.

" Meade deferred to Grant's judgment and issued orders to Sheridan to " proceed against the enemy's cavalry " and from May 9 through May 24, sent him on a raid toward Richmond, directly challenging the Confederate cavalry.

Despite an advance of the cavalry commanded by Fitzhugh Lee, the Confederate Army was checked by the arrival of Union cavalry commanded by Gen. Philip Sheridan and two divisions of infantry.

Major Gen. Philip Sheridan led a raid in the direction of Gordonsville and Charlottesville but was stopped by Wade Hampton's Confederate cavalry in the vicinity of Trevilian Station.

First, in the summer of 1864, Confederate General Jubal Early cleared the valley of its Union occupiers and then proceeded to raid Maryland, Pennsylvania and D. C. Then during the Autumn, Union General Philip Sheridan was sent to drive Early from the valley and once-and-for-all destroy its use to the Confederates by putting it to the torch using scorched-earth tactics.

The battle, sometimes referred to as the " Waterloo of the Confederacy ," pitted Union Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan against Confederate Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.

On December 31, 1862, the first day of the Battle of Stones River, Sheridan anticipated a Confederate assault and positioned his division in preparation for it.

Sheridan spotted a group of Confederate officers outlined against the crest of the ridge and shouted, " Here's at you!

Sheridan impulsively ordered his men to pursue Bragg to the Confederate supply depot at Chickamauga Station, but called them back when he realized that his was the only command so far forward.

" Meade deferred to Grant's judgment and issued orders to Sheridan to " proceed against the enemy's cavalry " and from May 9 through May 24, sent him on a raid toward Richmond, directly challenging the Confederate cavalry.

* The Rifleman ( 1958 ), featured in an episode " The Sheridan Story " where he helps a wounded Confederate veteran on Lucas McCain's ranch.

Confederate General Robert E. Lee, coming to the conclusion that Early had done all that was practical, ordered Early to return two of his divisions to Richmond and remain to tie up Sheridan.

General Philip Sheridan served as its first military governor, until removed by U. S. President Andrew Johnson because of a charge of excessive harshness in Sheridan's treatment of former Confederate soldiers.

Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal Early launched a surprise attack against the encamped army of Union Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, across Cedar Creek, northeast of Strasburg, Virginia.

However, once they achieved their objective, four divisions ( one led by Philip H. Sheridan ) stormed up the ridge and routed the Confederate center.

Wood and Philip Sheridan, were among the force of units that assaulted the reinforced center of the Confederate line on top of Missionary Ridge.

The M551 Sheridan was a light tank developed by the United States and named after Civil War General Philip Sheridan.

The US Army staff in Washington had been recommending since 1966 to the commander of US Forces in South Vietnam, General Westmoreland, that the Sheridan should be used in Vietnam.

By 1968, the new, or soon to be, US commander in South Vietnam, General Creighton Abrams had been notified that the 152mm shells were now available for the Sheridan.

In 1966 the US Army began pressing General Westmoreland to field the tank in South Vietnam, but he declined, stating that with no main gun ammunition, the Sheridan was basically nothing more than a $ 300, 000 machine gun platform.

In 1968 152mm main gun ammo became available, and the M551 General Sheridan was deployed to South Vietnam for combat operations in January 1969.

* Morris, Roy, Jr., Sheridan: The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan, Crown Publishing, 1992, ISBN 0-517-58070-5.

General Philip Sheridan encouraged his troops to hunt and kill the buffalo as a means of " destroying the Indians ' commissary.

* Sidney Blackmer as General Phil Sheridan

* Philip Sheridan ( 1831 – 1888 ), United States Army General and namesake of the M551 Sheridan

President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant served as the NRA's eighth President and General Philip H. Sheridan as its ninth.

Both Union General Sheridan and Stonewall Jackson located their headquarters just one block apart at various times.

* Major General Philip Sheridan – ( September 19, 1864, to February 27, 1865 )

Major General Sheridan raided up the Valley from Winchester, where his forces destroyed " 2, 000 barns filled with grain and implements, not to mention other outbuildings, 70 mills filled with wheat and flour " and " numerous head of livestock ," to lessen the area's ability to supply the Confederates.

After losing this battle, Early relinquished the town and the valley to General Philip Sheridan.

Fort Sill was established in 1869 by Major General Philip Sheridan who was leading a campaign in Indian Territory to stop raids into Texas by American Indian tribes.

The name comes from Civil War General Philip Henry Sheridan.

It was named after General Philip H. Sheridan.

It was named after American Civil War General Philip Sheridan.

The county seat, Sheridan was named after Union General Philip Sheridan.