On Philip Sheridan's Advice to the Prussians During the Franco-Prussian War Being that He "Would Leave Them Nothing but Their Eyes So They May Weep"

Anybody who claims to be surprised by this has probably only read court historians (the fact that Sheridan perpetrated countless war-crimes against Southern civilians and Native-Americans and was so tyrannical during Reconstruction that even an SOB like Andrew Johnson had to let him go). Gotta dig deeper, folks.