Philip Henry Sheridan az amerikai polgárháború uniós, északi erőinek tábornoka. A polgárháborút követően az amerikai hadsereg tábornoka maradt, majd 1883-tól annak főparancsnoka volt. Wikipedia
“If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent Texas and live in Hell…”
http://the-american-catholic.com/2010/04/30/sheridan-hell-and-texas/
Many newspapers stated that he had said this, and later on in his life he repeated it in variations.
“The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.”
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/sheridan.htm
In response to Comanche Chief Tosawi stating "Me, Tosawi; me good Injun". Although Sheridan disputed having replied this, but biographer Roy Morris Jr. claims that popular history simply assumed that he did state it.