Posted on 06/22/2018 11:46:12 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
That was according to my 8th grade history teacher-retired military. The only one who came close was MacArthur. That brings up the politics of the left. If it is true that Lee was a great General isn't it at least worth acknowledging? This tearing down of statues should stop. Educated persons should acknowledge the truth. It's the left that's the intelligent ones as they would have us believe. I see no conservatives standing up for this truth. The Senate GOP candidate in Virginia should start an 'intellectual' conversation on Lee and let the left react. Don't wait for a baiting reporter to to knee-jerk him into a quick response that they can interpret their own way.
Didn't stop him in 1862 and 1863.
Being forced to die in a desperate effort to save your own land makes of you a hero.
Lee's opposition to slavery was tepid at best.
My memory may be wrong on this so I’m hoping that others may correct or confirm what I am writing. And please, leave that chore to others, Ms. Dog. I’d hate to see you pawing through that vast liberry of yours.
No fear of that. I don't believe in wasting time looking up things I already know is wrong.
Admiral Nimitz won the war in the Pacific
McArthur was but a side show. He had a whole division wiped out in Korea because he stubbornly would not believe there.
he is over rated by a factor of 10
Confederate Gen. Patrick Cleburne supporting arming slaves in December of 1863, which would have required promising to free them as well. Basically what the Royal Governor of Virginia had done during the Revolution, Dunmore’s Proclamation.
Bruce Levine writes in his ‘Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War’ that Lee, Davis and Judah Benjamin came to the same conclusion in 1864 but it wasn’t tried until just a few weeks before Appomattox.
Until Summer 41', the Army was using the Philippines for dumping screw-ups and other undesirables.
It was MacArthur who finally ended that practice but it took time to fully implement that he didn't have.
Japan would have had a hard time taking the Philippines in Spring 42' if his build up had continued. It would have been impossible by summer.
What’s your opinion of Washington?
Being reluctant to send an army into someone else's country may have nothing at all to do with being unaware of it's military advantages. For Lee it may have been a moral conundrum in which he sought to avoid hurting people for which he had no malice.
Had he been more of an unethical cold hearted bastard, he might have done what was militarily advantageous instead of what he believed to be the proper moral thing.
Butchery.
Concerning the strategic blunder by Lee at Gettysburg, we see his men pressing the attack to the high water mark... almost breaking the Union line... (again, a singular effort to end the war). In Cold Harbor, we see men driven forth... losing 7000 in twenty minutes... then digging in and having other units push in behind... then they too tried to dig into the open field.
Grant left the engagement lag from 4AM until later that noon. Then, as aforementioned, he left the men in the field to die. Total Union casualties at Cold Harbor almost 13 thousand while the South suffered 5200 (with only 1500 on June 3rd).
"Loathe" is too strong a word. Lee wasn't happy about slavery, but he was able to live with it.
He thought it had work to do, civilizing the slaves, and that God would do away with it in his own good time.
Lee did refer to slavery as "a moral and political evil" in a private letter, but he felt that for the time being it was a necessary evil.
Winning against long odds
It is said that Union generals like Grant and Sherman may have achieved the same if they had likewise faced such dire circumstances
No, you don’t look up stuff that would negate what you already believe. So what good do all those books do you?
Why don’t you go back where you belong: on Roseanne threads where you can virtue-signal on her evil in mistaking a black woman for an ugly white Iranian America-hater. It suits you better.
Obama had his pen and phone through which he could rule by executive order. Lincoln had his pen and telegraph.
Virginia owned it before there was a federal government!
Who would they have bought it from, King Charles prior to the revolution?
Because of mindless shiiteheads like the antifa of today.
Because of Captain Robert E Lee.
Within a month, Lee Army of Northern Virginia was penned up in Petersburg.
almost breaking the Union line... Not even close. a few hundred men from the Confederate forces actually got through the Union Line. The were quickly killed or driven back by a Union counter attack.
Hi, Pelham!
Interesting. I had no idea! I do know that many blacks went into war with their confederate owners - and we have photos that show that.
What a time, eh?
FIFY
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