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A Memorial of Philip Henry Sheridan from the city of Boston

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.1385 Author/Creator: Place Written: Boston Type: Book Date: 1889 Pagination: 119 p. 26.6 x 17.6 cm Order a Copy

Book commemorating the death and subsequent rememberances of Philip Henry Sheridan. An engraving of Sheridan faces the title page, and on the page previous, a Civil War era carte-de-visite of Sheridan has been affixed.

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