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    SHERIDAN MAKES HIS NAME

    Sep 24, 2019 4 minutes
    By Gary W. Gallagher

    BRAHAM LINCOLN SPOKE to a crowd on October 21, 1864, about news from the Shenandoah Valley, proposing that they “give three hearty cheers for Sheridan.” The next day, Maj. Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan, architect of several victories that just culminated at Cedar Creek on October 19, received a message from the president. “With great pleasure,” wrote Lincoln, “I tender to you and your brave army, the thanks of the Nation, and my own personal admiration and gratitude, for the month’s operations in the Shenandoah Valley…” Shortly thereafter, William Tecumseh Sherman acknowledged how success in the Valley

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