Battle of Stones River: Philip Sheridan’s Rise to Military Fame
6/12/2006 • America's Civil War, Union Army
Brigadier General Philip H. Sheridan sat pensively in his command tent the evening of January 9, 1863, and stared at the paper on his camp desk. ‘At 2 o’clock on the morning of the 31st [December 1862] General Sill, who had command of my right brigade,’ he began. Words eluded him as he set aside his post-action combat report and mused for a moment, remembering an old friend, now dead. His face flushed red, and his thoughts went back to the day before the New Year, the day of the Battle of Stones River, the day he wrecked his division to save the army.
By historynet
Joshua Woodrow Sill, the 31-year-old commander of Sheridan’s 1st Brigade, was an old friend and former West Point classmate. A bond existed between the two soldiers, established during their years together on the Hudson River, that emboldened Sill to visit his division commander early on the morning of December 31 and discuss his growing fear over the military situation of the army, camped just south of Murfreesboro, Tenn.
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