. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. eering cry, Turn,boys, turn; were going back. Reaching the army, here-formed it, attacked the Confederates, who were plunder-ing the camp, and defeated them with great a months campaign Sheridan had lost seventeen thou- * Philip Henry Sheridan was born in Ohio in 1831. He graduatedfrom West Point in 1853, and served in the West till the outbreak ofthe war. In 1862 he served in Mississippi, and was made major-gen-eral for his bravery at Murfreesboro. He commanded the cavalry corpsof the Army of the Potom
. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. eering cry, Turn,boys, turn; were going back. Reaching the army, here-formed it, attacked the Confederates, who were plunder-ing the camp, and defeated them with great a months campaign Sheridan had lost seventeen thou- * Philip Henry Sheridan was born in Ohio in 1831. He graduatedfrom West Point in 1853, and served in the West till the outbreak ofthe war. In 1862 he served in Mississippi, and was made major-gen-eral for his bravery at Murfreesboro. He commanded the cavalry corpsof the Army of the Potomac in 1864-65. He was made lieutenant-gen-eral, succeeding Sherman, in 1869, and was given the rank of general,before held only by Grant and Sherman, on his death-bed in 1888. ^ Sheridan destroyed over two thousand barns filled with hay andwheat and over seventy mills filled with wheat and flour. He droveoff over four thousand head of cattle and killed and issued to thetroops three thousand sheep. War is brutal at its best, and this wasan example of its necessary brutality,. THE FINAL CAMPAIGNS OF THE WAR. 395 sand men. But Earlys army was practically was safe during the remainder of the Shenandoah Valley could not again feed an invadingarmy. The Siege of Petersburg.—The siege of the works atPetersburg continued incessantly till the spring of two events in this siege need special mention. A minewas dug under a strong Confederate fort in front of Peters-burg, and exploded on the morning of July 30. The fortand its garrison were hurled into the air. The chargethrough the breach, however, was badly managed, a haltbeing made in the crater caused by the explosion, so thatthe Confederates had time to rally in defence. A torrentof shot and shell was poured upon the confused mass ofmen, kilhng them in multitudes. Such as could escaped,but not less than four thousand men were lost in this ill-conducted enterprise. The second event was the capture
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