Articles of War: Winners, Losers, and Some Who Were Both During the Civil War

The American Civil War is filled with fascinating characters. This collection of biographical essays on the winners and losers of the Civil War covers some of the most intriguing: Ulysses S. Grant, George B. McClellan, Sam Houston, Albert Sidney Johnston, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and William Clarke Quantrill, to name just a few. In Articles of War you’ll discover: Some Winners *Ulysses S. Grant, whose brilliant Vicksburg Campaign was a model of military strategy *John A. Black Jack Logan, one of the war’s few successful political generals *Nathan Bedford Forrest, a natural military genius despite his Lost Cause
Some Losers *George B. McClellan, whose lack of eagerness cost the Union two opportunities to win the war *Earl Van Dorn, a victim of sheer bad luck *Theophilus H. Holmes, the little-known incompetent, called granny Holmes by his own men Some Winners Who Became Losers *Albert Sidney Johnston, the Confederacy’s General Who Might Have Been
*Leonidas Polk, whose initial good luck even