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 eventually ran out
- William Clarke Quantrill, a winner in death but a loser in life
And Some Losers Who Became Winners
- Sam Houston, who, had he lived longer, could have been a winner in Texas
- William Tecumseh Sherman, an exceptional man; a capable, but flawed, commander
