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To: central_va
Yes. If you didn't want the South to secede again, it had to taken down by total war.

Grant may have been a "butcher", but Lee was just as bad.


6 posted on 11/16/2023 7:11:58 AM PST by MuttTheHoople ( "Never thot I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones"-Johnny Rotten)
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To: MuttTheHoople
Lee's casualties


7 posted on 11/16/2023 7:13:15 AM PST by MuttTheHoople ( "Never thot I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones"-Johnny Rotten)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Grant was just implementing Lincoln’s policy of charge first and ask questions later.


9 posted on 11/16/2023 7:26:10 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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