[StoneWall Brigade]

Thanks for the ping SB I believe it was Shelby Foote, who said the civil war produce two genius’s one was Abe Lincoln, and the other was General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

[Badeye]

Thanks for the ping SB I believe it was Shelby Foote, who said the civil war produce two genius’s one was Abe Lincoln, and the other was General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

It was Shelby Foote.

He also said the Civil War could be defined by the two madmen that bracket it.

John Brown, and John Booth.