List of Maps and Illustrations
Preface
Prologue: On Judging Civil War Generals
1. Rosecrans in West Virginia: A Tale of a Goose, a Dog, and a Fox
2. Grant in Missouri and Tennessee: A Tale of How a Nobody Became a Somebody
3. Grant, Halleck, and a Failure to Communicate
4. Grant at Shiloh: How to Win by Not Losing
5. Grant Advances by Staying Put
6. Nobody at Antietam
7. Grant and Rosecrans at Luka and Corinth: The Birth of a Rivalry
8. Rosecrans at Stones River: How a New Disaster Became a Much-Needed Union Victory
9. Meade at Gettysburg: How to Win by Staying Put
10. Grant Victorious at Vicksburg: How to Win By Causing Your Enemies to Defeat Themselves
11. Rosecrans Takes Chattanooga and Grant Takes a Fall
12. Rosecrans and Thomas at Chickamauga: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of War
13. Grant at Chattanooga: How to Win a Battle Contrary to Plan
14. While Grant Fails to Defeat Lee, Sherman Invades Georgia: Circling around to Move Forward
15. Grant Remains Stymied, Sherman Takes Atlanta: Decision in the West
16. Sheridan in the Shenandoah
17. Sherman Marches to the Sea, Schofield Repulses Hood, and Thomas Vanquishes Hood at Nashville
18. Death Blows: Grant, Sheridan, and Sherman Win the War, but the Union Generals Fight On
Epilogue: The Victors in Blue—Who and Why
Notes
Index