ILLUSTRATIONS
[Steel Portrait—General P. H. Sheridan]
[Lieutenant Williamson's Trail from Fort Reading, Cal.,
to Fort Vancouver]
[Lieutenant Sheridan's Fight at the Cascades
of the Columbia in 1856]
[General Sheridan's War Horse "Rienzi"]
[Northeastern Mississippi]
[Battle of Booneville]
[Map Showing the Field of Operations of the Army of the Cumberland
in 1862 and 1863]
[Battle—field of Stone River]
[Positions of General Sheridan's Division in the Battle of Chickamauga]
[Portrait of General D. McM. Gregg]
[Portrait of General A. T. A. Torbert]
[Portrait of General Wesley Merritt]
[Portrait of General George A. Custer]
[Portrait of General Sheridan During the War]
[Portrait of General James H. Wilson]
[Positions of General Sheridan's Division prior to the
Attack on Missionary Ridge]
[First Expedition—The Richmond Raid]
[Second Expedition—The Trevillian Raid]
[Third Expedition—Raid to Roanoke Station]
[General Map, Embracing all the Expeditions]
[Map of the Shenandoah Valley]
[Portrait of Miss Rebecca M. Wright]
[Fac-simile Letter from Abraham Lincoln, Sept. 20, 1864]
[Fac-simile Letter from Abraham Lincoln, Oct. 22, 1864]
[Portrait of General William H. Emory]
[Portrait of General George Crook]
[General Sheridan and Staff. Dinwiddie Court House]
[Battle-field of Fisher's Hill]
[Battle-field of Cedar Creek]
[Fourth Expedition—Merritt's Raid to Loudoun]
[Fifth Expedition—Torbert's Raid to Gordonsville]
[Battle-field of Waynesboro]
[Sixth Expedition—Winchester to Petersburg]
[Belle-Grove House. General Sheridan's Headquarters at Cedar Creek]
[Portrait of General Horatio G. Wright]
[Battle-field of Dinwiddie Court House]
[Battle-field of Five Forks]
[Battle-field of Sailor's Creek]
[Seventh Expedition—The Appomattox Campaign]
[Eighth Expedition—To the Dan River and Return]
[Indian Campaign of 1868—1869]
[Map Showing Parts of France, Belgium, and Germany]
VOLUME I.
PREFACE
When, yielding to the solicitations of my friends, I finally decided to write these Memoirs, the greatest difficulty which confronted me was that of recounting my share in the many notable events of the last three decades, in which I played a part, without entering too fully into the history of these years, and at the same time without giving to my own acts an unmerited prominence. To what extent I have overcome this difficulty I must leave the reader to judge.
In offering this record, penned by my own hand, of the events of my life, and of my participation in our great struggle for national existence, human liberty, and political equality, I make no pretension to literary merit; the importance of the subject-matter of my narrative is my only claim on the reader's attention.
Respectfully dedicating this work to my comrades in arms during the War of the Rebellion, I leave it as a heritage to my children, and as a source of information for the future historian.
P. H. SHERIDAN.
Nonguitt, Mass., August 2, 1888