You’re probably thinking of Phil Sheridan, although William T. Sherman certainly had a hand in the post-1865 Indian Wars: Philip Sheridan - Wikipedia
As noted above, many small towns have statues of Civil War-era U.S. Army generals and soldiers (many symbolically facing south). Washington, D.C. of course has many things named after U.S. heroes of the war, many with statues, including Grant, Garfield, Dupont, Logan, Scott, Sheridan and Sherman Circles, and Lincoln, Seward, Stanton, Farragut, McPherson and Thomas (huzzah!) Squares, not to mention Lincoln Park and the Fort Lincoln neighborhood.
Sorry, grew up in the Black Hills of South Dakota… so…
No, I did mean William T. Sherman although Sheridan was a SOB as well. He waged war on the Lakota for defending themselves and then set up the reservation system in Oklahoma and South Dakota. Pretty much brutal everywhere he went.
Kind of ironic considering his middle name.
I’d still rename Ft. Gordon after him just on principle.
Huh, today I learned something…
Given the subject matter of this thread and the geological concerns thereof, do you think it is helpful or non-helpful to not mention where that city is? Big difference between those street names being in San Francisco, CA versus Meridian, MS.
Sorry. I meant “geographical” of course. 
I wonder if that is partly why they could not put up statues for them? I mean yes, they helped defeat the confederacy and free the slaves. That makes them good. But, then they went on to fight the indians and that makes them bad.
I don’t think anyone back then gave a rat’s ass about how a general treated the Indians. Plus, as I and others have mentioned, there are statues – they just weren’t constructed by a white supremacist organization to put black people in their place, so the Northern statues aren’t as prominent.
Are you sure Lee isnt named after any of the other famous Lee’s?
Actually I think almost everyone back then had some connection with the klan. They were everywhere. Probably to Borglum they were just another contract. The man who started the Crazy Horse manument also asked Borglum to build it.
One of the statues that was recently removed due to BLM-related protests was that of Frank Rizzo. Deservedly so,
On a related note, all those controversial Army bases named after Cornfed generals are in the South. Presumably they were named for the sake of community relations – in a time when they only needed to worry about their white neighbors; I should hope that no longer applies.
Oh god yes. Rizzo was a perfect example of the worst of both political parties.
Who actually put up a statue of Frank Rizzo?!
As I understood it, the Pentagon named forts after generals who were from the state in which they were located - thus Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina, was named after Braxton Bragg, from Warrenton, Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia was named for John Gordon from Upson County, Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas named after John Bell Hood, etc.
Not all forts in the South were named for Confederate generals, though - Fort McPherson in Atlanta was named after General James McPherson, who was killed at the Battle of Atlanta fighting Hood’s rebel army.
This piece from January says that it was a group of supporters who raised the money to get it done. I have heard that there are large swaths of Pennsylvania where you can find an abundance of right-wingers (the expression goes "it is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, with Alabama between them”).
This other article describes the history of the plaza location of the statue, which is in its own way, an appropriate setting.