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Sheridan's Secret Mission: How the South Won the War After the Civil War Jay Pathak Some simply call them aA deeply researched, narrative history recounting the little known lateReconstruction era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union Army hero dispatched to the South ten years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black citizens, who were under siege by violent paramilitary groups like the White League intent on erasing their postwar gains. In late 1874, nearly ten years after the Civil War, former slaves, or freedmen, found