"All eleven of these successful American generals rested their hope of victory, their method of war, on one and the same thing - the fire power of attacking infantry. The eleven appeared in periods when weapons differed widely, they commanded men of different training under different geographic conditions. Two of them were trained as artillerymen, two belonged to the cavalry service (not counting Sheridan, a synthetic cavalryman), one was an engineer, but when the chips were down, they all thought to like on one point - that nobody is going to win a battle until somebody goes in there on foot and wins it with a handgun." -- From the preface.

Nathanael Greene: The Quaker Turenne -- Anthony Wayne: The last of the Romans -- Jacob Brown: Sword of the border -- Richard M. Johnson: Rumpsey-Dumpsey -- John Buford: Man on horseback -- Philip H. Sheridan: Little Phil -- George H. Thomas: The Rock of Chickamauga -- James H. Wilson: The man who got there first -- Charles P. Summerall: Sitting Bull II -- A.A. Vandegrift: Vandegrift of Guadalcanal -- Omar Bradley: Tactician of the West.