3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American historian and former White House speechwriter — author of The Man Who Would Not Be Washington (about Robert E. Lee) — who has written on the Civil War and Confederate history.
B.H. Liddell Hart's 1929 biography of General William T. Sherman — arguing that Sherman's indirect strategy (March to the Sea) was more decisive than Grant's direct approach — the most influential military biography of the 20th century.
Confederate general who conducted the Shenandoah Valley Campaign (1862) — tying down 60,000 Union troops with 17,000 Confederate soldiers through rapid movement and deception — and who was Robert E. Lee's most essential corps commander until his accidental death at Chancellorsville.