To: MNJohnnie
Always find it amusing that Grant gets such a reputation as a “butcher” while Lee, who lost a proportional number of solider from his smaller army, is hailed as some great military genius. Except for Gettysburg D-3, what example do you have on the scale of Grant's headlong approach for Lee?
279 posted on
04/13/2010 6:59:02 AM PDT by
central_va
( http://www.15thvirginia.org)
To: central_va
Except for Gettysburg D-3, what example do you have on the scale of Grant's headlong approach for Lee? Malvern Hill. D.H. Hill said afterward, "It was not war--it was murder."
287 posted on
04/13/2010 8:53:34 AM PDT by
Bubba Ho-Tep
("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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