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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

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Albert Castel is one of the most respected and prolific scholars in the Civil War community. He has won several prizes for his work, most notably the 1993 Lincoln Prize for Decision in the West.

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