U. S. Grant as the most over rated General of the war
and General Sherman as the highest decorated War Criminal to not be charged.
Victory in war has a quality of all of its own. Something Lee, Longstreet and the others of the Southern Army would never discover.
You need to read about Grant’s Western Campaign. Also Sherman’s supposed atrocities don’t stand up to historical scrutiny.
And I am not going to get into a “forever bandwidth wasting “ discussion on it. Where we count how many “Yanks & Rebs” can dance on the head o a pin!
And jeff davis as the traitor who got away..
“war criminals” can only occur on the losing side.. The winners write the history books and conduct the trials.
U. S. Grant as the most over rated General of the war
While my sympathies are with the South, Grant did know how to run a war on a basic level Figure out what your advantages are, and run with them until you win and your enemies have all been sufficiently defeated. He and Lincoln made for a winning team, the like of which hasn’t really been seen since.
Grant is the worst general, except for most of the rest.
If anyone must hold such a title, it would RE Lee, who lost as many battles as he won (Grant won all of his), and when on offense (i.e., Antietam, Gettysburg) lost more of his army (percents) than Grant.
And unlike Grant, who never did, Lee was always pleading for more men & materials from a population which could afford neither.
But Lee was a great general, just as good as that other great Virginian, George Thomas, the Rock of Chickamauga.
Michael.SF.: "General Sherman as the highest decorated War Criminal to not be charged."
Sherman committed no "crimes" against Confederates that Confederates had not already committed against Union citizens.
And unlike Confederate armies which grabbed every Northern freed-black they could for sale in Confederate slave markets, Sherman set many thousands of slaves free.
Your assessment is wrong. Grant never lost a battle including when he deliberately put himself in the position of being surrounded, cut off and outnumbered in order to take Vicksburg. Without a doubt the first truly modern American general who understood how modern technology was changing warfare (along with perhaps Longstreet).
As for Sherman, he decided that destroying the property that sustained the armies of the South was the best way to end the war and stop the slaughter. It worked.
That statement tells us more about you than Grant or Sherman.
And yet he beat every Southern general sent against him.
...and General Sherman as the highest decorated War Criminal to not be charged.
Matter of opinion.