To: wagglebee
I think that Lee was one of the three best men to be forged in the fires of the Civil War. The other two are Grant and Lincoln. Without these three, the late great unpleasantness may not have ended on such an optimistic note.
To: Frumious Bandersnatch
Jackson could have been the fourth. That blacks would sneak past Union sentries to put flowers upon Stonewall's grave speaks volumes.
156 posted on
01/18/2005 9:29:58 PM PST by
Gondring
(They can have my Bill of Rights when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!)
To: Frumious Bandersnatch
I think that Lee was one of the three best men to be forged in the fires of the Civil War. The other two are Grant and Lincoln. Without these three, the late great unpleasantness may not have ended on such an optimistic note.Truth.
212 posted on
01/19/2005 12:38:32 PM PST by
NJ Neocon
(Democracy is tyranny of the masses. It is three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner)
To: Frumious Bandersnatch
I think that Lee was one of the three best men to be forged in the fires of the Civil War. The other two are Grant and Lincoln. Without these three, the late great unpleasantness may not have ended on such an optimistic note.I agree that Lee, Grant and Lincoln were three great Americans who came out of the war. I'd add a fourth in General Sherman. He fought a hard war, but it was what was needed to end the bloodshed and preserve the Union. He showed the spirit of magnanimity to his Southern brothers by his generous terms to Joe Johnston. Sherman gets a bad press by many, but he was only a hard soldier and was not motivated by the anti-Southern hate that characterized Sheridan.
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