American Civil War: and Napoleonic Startegy

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I'm a big fan of history, especially the period of the Napoleonic Wars and the American Civil War.

I am Polish and European, and therefore particularly interested in the Napoleonic Wars, and Napoleon Bonaparte, as a person.
I wonder what would happen if he won, my country, Poland, might have been in some way subordinate to the French Empire, but at least we would not have to wrangle over a hundred years with the Prussians and the Russians and Austrians

But this post is not supposed to be about the Napoleonic wars, but the American Civil War, I wonder whether, when the war ended in 1865, does a French general lived who was a general under Napoleon, and what were his thoughts on the strategies and tactics used by the Unionist and Confederates.


History is my Asperger special interest

All the generals on both sides of the american civil war were convinced that they WERE Napoleon.

But I doubt that any general in Napoleon's army's was still alive fitty years after Waterloo to comment on our civil war.

But our Civil War was definitely studied in European military colleges of the time.

Napoleon's namesake: Napoleon II was head of France at the time of our Civil War. He got into a viscious bloody war with Prussia in 1870 in which both sides drew upon lessons from our recent civil war. The Prussians had learned a little more- and won the war.

The Civil War started out Napoleonic. But Grant and Sherman introduced modern total war. Bring fire, woe and death to the civilians that make it possible for the enemy to field and supply an army. Sheridan burnt down the Shenendoa Valley. Sherman ruined Georgia and did worse to South Caronlina, and Grant starved out Vicksburg. How many women and children perished from starvation?

Grant and Sherman are my heros. They understood war and were not afraid to prosecute it.

ruveyn

I have to say, I laughed when after that description of Grant and Sherman's prosecution of the war, I read your last line.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

As a matter of fact, history is also my Asperger's obsession.
As an American of mostly German ancestry, I have an interest in Pre-Christian Germanic history and archeology. I also have an interest in the history of my home region of the American west, particularly the 19th and early 20th centuries, otherwise known as the Wild West, particularly with it's less than savory outlaw characters.
I do have a little Polish Catholic ancestry on my Dad's side. But as the rest of his family were German Protestants, I have little knowledge about them, other than that a couple of Polish children, who were orphaned after their parents had been murdered by bandits, were adopted by my German ancestors waiting midpoint in Poland to be sent by train to the Black Sea for settlement by the Russian crown. These orphans grew up to marry into the family, and disappeared in our gene pool.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer