Eh...victorious, yes. Not great in quite the same way that Lee was, but great in his own way. Grant knew exactly how to use the North's superiority in men and materiel, and was willing to absorb the casualties necessary to grind down the South in a war of attrition that it couldn't win. He wasn't the tactical master that some of the Southern generals were, but he didn't have to be. He fought his war, his way, and was the right man for the job at the time.
One has to wonder what Marse Robert could've done with the industrial superiority of the North. Sort of like those old what-ifs about "what if Rommel would've had all the men and materiel that Montgomery did at El Alamein?"
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I know, I booboo'd.
I used to love Grant & Lincoln, but maybe I've been in the south too long. I still think Lincoln started the Big Government, and his fondness for Marx at the time was a big red flag.
