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