Which U.S. Army officer had the worst attitude toward Indians?
Paul Gordon
St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada
Probably Gen. Philip Sheridan. He initiated the strategy of launching brutal winter campaigns that attacked Indian villages and destroyed their livestock and supplies. He justified this by declaring, “... if a village is attacked and women and children killed, the responsibility is not with the soldiers but with the people whose crimes necessitated the attack.”
Sheridan became notorious
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