[mainepatsfan]

"I prefer Lee to Johnston. The former is too cautious and weak under grave responsibility -- personally brave and energetic to a fault, he yet is wanting in moral firmness when pressed by heavy responsibility and is likely to be timid and irresolute in action." - George McClellan

[Northern Yankee]

I thought Lee was a tremendous general, but don't understand his decision to send in Pickett at Gettysburg.

I know that Longstreet took too long to coordinate his cannonade against Meade, but don't think it would have made a difference. The Union Army was too well entrenched.

[trek]

"His {Lee's} leadership and exploits soon became legend."

And now most Americans, if they know the name at all, think he might be the guy who invented blue jeans.

[NavyCanDo]

One of the most facinating looks you ever have into what it was like for the average confederate soldier is a book called:

DIARY OF
A TAR HEEL CONFEDERATE SOLDIER: wich can be read in its entirity on the web site below.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/leon/leon.html

PREFACE
This diary was commenced for the fun of writing down my experience as a soldier from the Old North State. I never thought for a moment that I would put it in print; but now that I am getting old and have read so many histories written by our officers, but have never seen in print a history written by a private.
I know that my diary is truly the life of the man behind the gun, therefore I make bold to publish it. I am sure my experience was that of other privates, and a true history of my companies and regiments, as well as the Brigade, Division, and even Corp that I belonged to. I am certain that the men of ‘61 to ‘65 who read this will recall most vividly the camping, marching, fighting and suffering they endured in those never-to-be-forgotten days of long ago. And to the younger generation of Southern-born it will show how we endured and suffered, but still fought on for the cause we know was right.

[SunkenCiv]

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