Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Philip Sheridan

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American military man Philip Sheridan.
Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Philip Sheridan

General of the Army Philip Henry Sheridan was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with General-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac in the East. In 1864, he defeated Confederate forces under General Jubal Early in the Shenandoah Valley and his destruction of the economic infrastructure of the Valley, called "The Burning" by residents, was one of the first uses of scorched-earth tactics in the war. In 1865, his cavalry pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee and was instrumental in forcing his surrender at Appomattox Courthouse.

I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!
I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.
If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell. — © Philip Sheridan
If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.
Always make your opponent think you know more than you really know.
The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.
Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes through a trombone, or even a trombonist, now and then.
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