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Thirteen essays originally written for popular historical journals detail the background, psychology, and wartime activities of such Civil War commanders as Ulysses S. Grant, William Clarke Quantrill, and Nathan Bedford Forrest.
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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, 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.
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