runs plan was good, but phil sheridan was not coming in. sheridan, while he has lawrence three divisions was going to do something different. he is going to take his cavalry corps and attack frontally well his divisions are moving around their flank. he gives him specific orders to be on this axis. accept, feel sheridan's cavalry got it wrong as to where the confederate line is. phil sheridan's cavalry got it wrong as to where the confederate line is. in the attack the six car is moving right past the confederates. -- the sixth corps is moving right past the candidates. he thinks it ends here but it actually ends over here. suddenly they see that the confederates are over there. it turned out better because the sixthcorps pivots. what other confederate commanders doing while all this is happening? the union cavalry is pushing on the front. well, fits lee and ticket --fitz picket had been invited to a whipping. he was assured that sheridan would not attack that day. they are not even two miles from the battlefield, to the north, across the st

it was his book jeremy mentioned the other day, phil sheridan and his army, that received the prize from the organization of american historians, the evans biography award, and a spur award. he is also the editor of several books that we all have on our shelves, "western heritage," "round up," "frontier and region," "the custer reader," and "soldiers west," as well as a 10-volume eyewitness to the civil war series he did for bantam in the 1990's. he started in many ways reaching on shaping western historical scholarship when he was an associate editor at the western historical quarterly and then editor of the new mexico historical review. now he has written several short films, dozens television documentaries, and he has appeared upon, if this is to be believed, over 300 television programs on major networks, public television, and cable networks as well. you may have known or seen the work that he did behind the scenes as a historical consultant on ron howard's film "the missing." he also worked on jon favreau's "cowboys and aliens," and recently on gavin o'connor's "jane got a gun." he

and his words were typical of the praise that frontier soldiers gave to cody, phil sheridan, emery carr, charles king, anton mills, and many other army officers all praised cody both before and after he became nationally famous. his exploits, although later exaggerated by press agents and show business are absolutely authentic. and what just drives me crazy and not a long drive as you can tell -- [laughter] paul hutton: what drives me crazy is all the folks who want to present him as a charlatan and fraud. and he's not just not at all. he did it all before he was 25, you know? i wish i had. and indeed later writers have attempted to downplay his scouting activities and many of them treated him as just one of many comparable army scouts. but he was not just like one of many comparable scouts. he was truly head and shoulders above almost all of them and ranks with ben clark, luther kelly, frank north, as one of the great scouts of the indian wars. in one 12-month period, for example, from october 1868 to october of 1869, cody is chief of scouts for the fifth cavalry. participated in seven

it was the book, phil sheridan and his army that received the prize from the organization of american historians, the evans biography award and a spur awarned. he is also the editor of several books that we all have on our shelves. western heritage, round up, the custer rece daviser and soldiers west, as well as a 10-volume eyewitness to the several war series he did for ban dam in the 90's. he started reaching on shaping western historical scholarship when he was an associate editor at the western historical quarterly and then editor of the new mexico historical review. now he has written several short films, dozens of television documentaries, and he has appeared upon, if this is to be believed over 300 television programs on major networks, public television and cable networks as well. you may have known or seen the work that he did behind the scenes as a historically consultant on ron howard fiment's, the missing. e also worked on cowboys and aliens, and recently on jane got a gun. he has been very active as a public historian massachusetts an imprint on programming at museums by

phil sheridan knows it is over. phil sheridan wants to attack. he wants to kill them. he wants to destroy the army of northern virginia. grant won't do it. he knows it is over. he is not out for blood. he wants the country heels together as his surrender terms will show. messages have been crossing for days between granta and lee. at this point the message finally catches up to grant that lee is ready to surrender. you can imagine the heartbreak. you have heard about the growing men's tears. they were real. the north, too, the yankees are disarmed. it is over. by god, it is over. men have many different reactions. some in the union are bitter. home. just want to go i won't tell you exactly what the last scene is in the book, but i will say it might give you a slightly different insight into appomattox. the new book, out august 29, cover, "judgement at appomattox" i think all of you who followed me for the first four books. i hope all of the books have given you a new perspective, and a sense of what those men, great and small, were really like. above all, as the fourth

grew up in southern ohio was 10 miles no, 20 miles from william sherman's house in 10 miles from phil sheridan's house. southeastern ohio's steeped in civil war history. i moved here in 2001 from ohio, and became fascinated by the two battle ofre the gettysburg. in the business world there is an old adage, find a need and fill it. that two-week. was a big need. two-week period was a big need. these are human stories that nobody has ever told before. i hadving in york county, a massive amount of resources of things that had never been published. lots of stories on what happened, and then, for the unique things i have taken a lot of advantage of, most aren't aware the pennsylvania, after the civil war, if the confederate army of the union army took something from you, horses are supplies or something like that, you could file a sworn damage claim with the government. ed a lot of york and adams county records, and could find what roads some regiments were on at certain times. i could put together the complete story, of not only the drive-through, but i wrote a stuart,nt book on jeb and what he was