The Memoir of P. H. Sheridan. Philip Henry Sheridan
Philip Henry Sheridan
The Memoir of P. H. Sheridan
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2019 OK Publishing
EAN 4064066052898
Table of Contents
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