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