2nd Saturday Civil War Series: “After I am Gone…” The Battle for Gen. Philip Sheridan’s Legacy & Memory with Jonathan Noyalas

In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279
Meeting ID: 937 057 9279

Following the death of General Philip H. Sheridan in the summer of 1888, fierce debates arose over how Sheridan, regarded as one of the Union’s “three great generals” during the Civil War and a divisive figure, should be remembered. “After I am Gone,” based on Jonathan A. Noyalas’s forthcoming book, General Philip H. Sheridan: Life, War, and Memory (Routledge), will examine how Sheridan’s allies, including his widow Irene, Union veterans, political figures, and artists including Carl Augustus Heber and Gutzon Borglum, worked to counter General Sheridan’s critics who claimed that Sheridan sought glory for himself at the expense of his troops and present him as a gallant general who cared for his soldiers and forged an unbreakable bond with them.

Jonathan A. Noyalas is director of Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute and a history professor at Shenandoah. He is the author or editor of seventeen books and over one hundred articles, essays, chapters, and reviews which have appeared in a variety of scholarly and popular publications. Prof. Noyalas has consulted on a wide array of public history projects with groups including the National Park Service, American Battlefield Trust, and Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District. He has appeared on C-SPAN’s American History, NPR’s “With Good Reason,” and PCN. Noyalas is the recipient of numerous awards for his teaching and scholarship, including Shenandoah University’s Exemplary Teaching Award for the First Year Seminar and the State Council for Higher Education in Virginia’s Outstanding Faculty Award.