Part one : Generals south : P.G.T Beauregard -- Joseph E. Johnston -- Robert E. Lee -- Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson -- Albert Sidney Johnston -- Braxton Bragg -- John Hunt Morgan -- Nathan Bedford Forrest -- J.E.B. Stuart -- James Longstreet -- John Bell Hood -- Jubal Early ; Part two : Generals north : Winfield Scott -- George B. McClellan -- John Pope -- Ambrose E. Burnside -- Henry Wager Halleck -- Ulysses S. Grant -- William Tecumseh Sherman -- Joseph Hooker -- George H. Thomas -- Winfield Scott Hancock -- George Gordon Meade -- Philip H. Sheridan

"A timely new look at the key military leaders of the Civil War--with rankings, photos, and more. By the time the Civil War was over, 583 generals had served in the Union army and 572 in the Confederate army. A few were brilliant. Many should never have held command. But others learned on the job and did their utmost--or even gave their utmost...best-selling author and military historian Alan Axelrod chooses the two dozen generals who had the greatest impact on the course and outcome of the war..."--Dust jacket