Sheridan's ride : autograph manuscript copy of the poem signed, [1865 or later].

Part of an album of manuscript poems and letters of nineteenth-century English and American authors collected by Mrs. Annie Fields, author and literary hostess in Boston. Manuscripts in the album are described in individual records; see MA 925 for more information.
The poem recounts General Philip Henry Sheridan's ride to rally the Union troops at the battle of Cedar Creek in Virginia on Oct. 19, 1864.