Articles of War,9780811700054

Articles of War

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ISBN13: 9780811700054
ISBN10: 0811700054
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-07-01
Publisher(s): Stackpole Books
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Summary

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, Sam Houston, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and William Clarke Quantrill, to name just a few. The articles represent a broad cross-section of the scholarship of noted author Albert Castel; most were written over a fifty-year period for publication in national 'popular history' magazines such as American Heritage, Civil War History, and Civil War Times Illustrated.

Author Biography

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: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Author's Note x
Prologue: How the War Began: Fort Sumter, 1861
PART ONE: SOME WINNERS
Grant Takes Vicksburg
40(15)
``Don't He Look Savage!'': Black Jack Logan
55(13)
Alpheus S. ``Ol Pap'' Williams: The Fighting and Writing General from Michigan
68(11)
Nathan Bedford Forrest: Born to Fight
79(13)
PART TWO: SOME LOSERS
George B. McClellan: ``I Can Do It All.''
92(13)
Earl Van Dorn: Bravery Was Not Enough
105(9)
In Quest of Glory: George Stoneman's Attempt to Free the Andersonville Prisoners
114(11)
Theophilus H. Holmes: Pallbearer of the Confederacy
125(9)
PART THREE: SOME WINNERS WHO BECAME LOSERS
Albert Sidney Johnston: The Greatest Might-Have-Been of the Civil War
134(16)
Death Comes to the Bishop: When Luck Ran Out for Leonidas Polk
150(11)
Jim Lane of Kansas: ``King of the Jayhawkers.''
161(11)
William Clarke Quantrill
172(10)
PART FOUR: TWO LOSERS WHO BECAME WINNERS
Sam Houston's Last Stand
182(13)
The Fall and Rise of William Tecumseh Sherman
195(44)
The Failure
195(11)
The Subordinate
206(13)
The Conqueror
219(20)
Epilogue: Why the North Won and the South Lost
Index 239

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