![General Phil Sheridan’s Ride during the Battle of Cedar Creek was one of the most famous vignettes in Civil War history. Sheridan commanded United States troops poised to cross the Mexican-American border as tensions rose shortly after the Civil War.](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/sheridans_ride-760x529.jpg)
Summer 2016
Civil War Quarterly, Editorial
Could the United States Have Gone to War With France Over Mexico?
By Roy MorrisThe continued presence of a handpicked French puppet emperor in Mexico, which had so worried the Lincoln administration during the Civil War, remained a sore point with American political and military leaders after the Union victory in 1865. Read more