Articles of War

by Castel, Albert E.

• ISBN13: 9780811700054
• ISBN10: 0811700054
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Stackpole Books

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