[Iris7]

First again! Yahoo!

Looks like the Yankees learned something from General Forrest. The tight discipline and subordinate initiative is very Forrest like. Heavy mounted raids on railroads and supply facilities were the real innovation of the war.

Now, if the South had had Forrest as military dictator, in the same sense as a war dictator in the old Roman Republic, or even Thomas Jonathan Jackson, who was much the same sort of man as Forrest, except in being a Christian Gentleman -

Heavy raids into Ohio and Indiana and all the way to Chicago, destroying rail, depots, shipyards, sparing all who would not fight, and killing all who would - start in 1862, no later, burn Chicago in the summer of '64, McClellan would have been president instead of Old Abe. Think of it.

There are a bunch of other ways that would have worked. Lee's letter to Davis right after 2nd Manassas, for example.

[Iris7]

Good night, all. Sack time for me.

[snippy_about_it]

First again! LOL. You must be burning the night oil.

[SAMWolf]

Morning Iris7.

It took a while but the North finally learned how to use Cavalry properly.