| Articles of War: Winners, Losers, and Some Who Were Both During the Civil War Contributor(s): Castel, Albert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0811736709 ISBN-13: 9780811736701 Publisher: Stackpole Books OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) |
| Series: Stackpole Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (0.85 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |