Robert E Lee
Greatest American general in history.
I would agree.He did make a horrible mistake at Gettysburg however.
True, but he could not have asked for a more magnanimous enemy to receive his surrender. Grant greatly admired his Confederate counterpart.
Patton. Lee was a loser.
Indeed. Even Grant himself said he couldn’t defeat him outright; rather, Grant won simply because the North had too many men and won through attrition.
Lee is one of those guys in history easy to like.
I always thought Grant was the greatest military man ever to put on a uniform on behalf of the United States.
> Robert E Lee. Greatest American general in history. <
I must respectfully disagree. I’d without hesitation rank Washington above Lee. No contest there, in my opinion. Both Lee and Washington faced long odds. But Washington was able to pull it off. Lee could not.
As for Grant, he was a good general, but not a great one. Grant had the resources. He skillfully deployed those resources. But he had the advantage from Day One. He was not the underdog.
A case could be made for Winfield Scott, the nation's leading general for a generation, the successful invader of Mexico and the man who developed the overall strategy the Union used to defeat the Confederacy.
What about Eisenhower, Patton, and MacArthur?