[carton253]

I will get carried away about Jackson. He won while outmanned, outgunned, and outsupplied. In my opinion, he was the best general this country ever produced. I can tell by your post you would disagree. Oh, well!

With all due respect to Grady McWhiney and Perry Jamieson, I think their theory is a bunch of bunk. But, they've published a book and mine is not ready for the publisher yet. So, there you go.

Give me Stonewall!!!!!

[LS]

Well, you can like Jackson's abilities all you want, but he was NOT "outmanned and outgunned" by very much in many of those battles. Moreover, if you are on defense, the enemy needs to have a 2:1 or 3:1 advantage to be successful, yet Stonewall lost a higher percentage of his men in almost every engagement.

There are also a lot of intricacies of Civil War combat with which I'm sure you are familiar, namely that the Confed. "divisions" were much heavier than Yankee "divisions," and therefore if a Southern division was arrayed against a Yankee division---regardless of the reserves available---the weight was with the Rebs. So I don't buy the "outgunned" theory. Later in the war, at Gettysburg, for ex., definitely, but not up until 1863.