John “Black Jack” Logan

John “Black Jack” Logan was a well known Civil War general who helped the Union win the war in the Western theater, and after the war he became a national politician.

The Book and Its Claims

In the 1880s, he also wrote this book, in which he asserted that the secession crisis and Civil War were all part of a Southern conspiracy that had its roots long before Lincoln’s election. The book covers all the way into Reconstruction.