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To: mrustow
On the other hand, you have the Civil War, where it practically became a matter of who had more bodies to throw at the enemy.

See the exploits of Confederate General *Wild* Patrick Cleburne, both in the attack and defending. asside from the final attack ordered by Hood at Franklin in which Cleburne and most of his men were killed in a suicidal charge against dug-in troops, his operations were a textbook example of the way to do it.

...with the right guy, the troops go psycho and run over the opposition, but with the wrong guy, they get shot to pieces.

Ah yes. And from the same conflict, that would be Confederate general and cavalryman Nathan Bedford Forrest, fond of putting the scare into! those opposing him, and said by Lee to be his best commander, though the two men never met. Cleburne and Forrest were a bit more than passing acquaintences, though, and their conversations must have been something to have been a part of.

Two very different men, two differing ways of doing things. Same excellent results.


75 posted on 09/26/2003 2:51:02 PM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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To: archy
Thanks for the background. I 'll read up on both men. I'd heard of Forrest, but not of Cleburne. But what about Stonewall? (Obviously, I have NO Civil War experise.)
86 posted on 09/26/2003 3:34:00 PM PDT by mrustow (no tag)
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