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To: Frumious Bandersnatch
I think that Lee was one of the three best men to be forged in the fires of the Civil War. The other two are Grant and Lincoln. Without these three, the late great unpleasantness may not have ended on such an optimistic note.

Truth.

212 posted on 01/19/2005 12:38:32 PM PST by NJ Neocon (Democracy is tyranny of the masses. It is three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner)
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To: NJ Neocon

Stonewall Jackson and John Hunt Morgan towered above Grant, both as men, and as military officers.


235 posted on 01/19/2005 2:28:57 PM PST by Renfield (Philosophy chair at the University of Wallamalloo!!)
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