Every successful General benefitted from “patronage” of a political nature: even U.S. Grant and William T. Sherman, while decrying “political generals” had their own political patrons. General Grant had Elihu Washburne; and Sherman had his brother, Senator John Sherman of Ohio, and the politically connected Ewing family.
Question: Who were the patrons of the following men?
Benjamin Prentiss
John McClernand
Henry Wager Halleck
George B. McClellan
Lew Wallace
Stephen Hurlbut
John A. Logan
John Fremont
Albert Sidney Johnston
Braxton Bragg
PGT Beauregard