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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

If you want to draw an analysis between Grant and Lee, Grant graduated from West Point in 1843, ranking 21st in a class of 39. Lee graduated second in his class of 46.

Grant was under educated.


69 posted on 10/18/2006 12:21:02 PM PDT by PeaRidge
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To: PeaRidge

And Lee did not have any demerits. Do you realize what an accomplishment that is? (of course you do)


71 posted on 10/18/2006 12:24:47 PM PDT by carton253 (Sadness is just another word for not enough chocolate.)
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To: PeaRidge

Grant never beat Lee on a battlefield on equal terms. Grant overwhelmed Lee with superior manpower and firepower.


72 posted on 10/18/2006 12:26:01 PM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again" - Jack Bauer)
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To: PeaRidge
If you want to draw an analysis between Grant and Lee, Grant graduated from West Point in 1843, ranking 21st in a class of 39. Lee graduated second in his class of 46.

Grant was under educated.

Oh, if class rank is the criteria, then Jefferson Davis, who graduated 23rd of 32, is even more under educated. Then there's Longstreet--54 of 56. Harry Heth must have been barely literate, since he was dead last. So was Pickett.

83 posted on 10/18/2006 2:01:37 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: PeaRidge; Bubba Ho-Tep
Grant was under educated.

Considering he was the most consistently victorious general of the War of Southern Rebellion he was more like a late bloomer.

89 posted on 10/18/2006 2:31:50 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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