Articles of War Winners, Losers, and Some Who Were Both During the Civil War

• 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”

• 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

• 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

• 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

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