Adding to his unmistakable appearance, “Little Phil” rode one of the tallest horses in the Civil War. Rienzi, jet black and sixteen hands high (five feet four inches high at the withers, the tallest point of a horse’s body), became famed for his endurance. Today, at Sheridan Circle in Washington, the life-sized statue of Sheridan and Rienzi captures the dynamism of the general, his right hand stretched out as if commanding his cavalry. Sheridan arrived in Washington on April 4 and made
