![Few photographers were able to capture as big a cross-section of people, places and events during the Civil War as Mathew Brady.](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/Brady-1.jpg)
Ulysses S. Grant
American Civil War Timeline: Piecemeal Operations
by William E. WelshU.S. President Abraham Lincoln had no military experience and discarded most of Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott’s so-called Anaconda Plan, which critics deemed too conservative. Read more