An impeccably researched, character-driven narrative history recounting the fascinating late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South ten years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black men, who were under siege by violent paramilitary groups like the White League intent on erasing their postwar gains.

One of the lesser known Generals who was most responsible for winning The Civil War, Philip Henry Sheridan was fierce in pushing his troops to endure, and quick to improvise tactics when necessary. After the Civil War, he ruthlessley raided the Plains Indians by killing their warriors, burning their villages and destroying their primary source of food, the buffalo. As he forced the indians onto reservations, he often defended them against corrupt...