General Philip Henry Sheridan:

Philip Sheridan was born in New York in 1831 and grew up in Ohio. He attended West point, graduating in 1853, and served in the Civil War as a Union cavalry commander. He served in the Division of the Gulf in 1867, and then went to the Department of the Missouri, where he planned military winter campaigns against the Kiowa, Comanche, and Cheyenne. In 1869, he was promoted to lieutenant general and became commander of the Division of the Missouri, which encompassed the entire Plains region.