"Now, boys, lie low, you know, and let 'em come up close, you know, and then rise up and give 'em ———, you know."

"The proper strategy consists in the first place in inflicting as telling blows as possible upon the enemy's army, and…"

"If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent Texas and live in Hell."

"The only good Indians I ever saw were dead."

"Probably no living soldier was ever more terrible in battle than Sheridan. With the first smell of gunpowder he becam…"

"General Phil Sheridan... had urged the destruction of the bison herds, correctly predicting that when they disappeare…"

"General Grant tended to pick men in his own mold to lead his armies in the field. Phil Sheridan fit his style, as did…"

"In fact during this retreat week- and unbeknownst to the gullible inhabitants of Southside Virginia- some of these ad…"

"Certainly the most (inf)famous person who came along this way was Major General Philip Henry Sheridan, a squat-little…"

"During the century and a half since the Civil War, however, many historians have offered more measured opinions about…"