Philip Henry Sheridan papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18000
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Government relations; Indians of North America; Courts-martial and courts of inquiry; Wars; Boundaries; Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864 (May-August); Discovery and exploration; Cavalry operations; Piegan Indians; Description and travel
Description: Correspondence, letterbooks, telegrams, memoir, speeches, reports, orders, financial records, scrapbooks, and other papers relating primarily to the Civil War, Reconstruction, Mexican border disputes, Indian wars, and Sheridan's service as commanding general of the U.S. Army.

Civil War material relates to cavalry operations, the Appomattox, Shenandoah, and Tullahoma campaigns, the Winchester Raid, and engagements at Boonville, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Perryville, Ripley, and Stone River.  Also includes material on George A. Forsyth's Europe-Asia tour (1875-1876), the Piegan Expedition (1869-1870), Gouverneur K. Warren's court of inquiry (1881), Rebecca M. Bonsal's service as Union spy at Winchester, Va., reconnaissance of the Bighorn Mountains and the Bighorn and Yellowstone river valleys (1877), and Henry Page's service as quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac (1863-1865).  Correspondents include George A. Forsyth, James W. Forsyth, Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Michael V. Sheridan, and William T. Sherman.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, no. 19,308.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1986.

In part, transcripts. [S.l.].

Deposit, Irene Rucker Sheridan, 1931-1932.

Converted to gift, heirs to the estate of Philip Henry Sheridan, 1948.

Gift, Mrs. Charles H. Kneessi, 1946.

Army officer.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006029