Philip Sheridan

Philip Henry Sheridan (1831–1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac in the East. In 1864, he defeated Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley and his destruction of the economic infrastructure of the Valley, called "The Burning" by residents, was one of the first uses of scorched earth tactics in the war. In 1865, his cavalry pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee and was instrumental in forcing his surrender at Appomattox.

Philip Sheridan in The Guns of the South
Philip Henry Sheridan has stayed in the US Army after the Second American Revolution. The tensions between the US and the British Empire soon degenerated into war. By the 1888, US forces under Sheridan's command have managed to capture Winnipeg in Canada.