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Old 04-24-2005, 15:19 PM   #25 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by BenRoethig
4. Ulysses S. Grant.
Good or bad, the thing you have to remember about Grant is that he was the only northerner with any credibility in the south.
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Originally Posted by Praxus
If you call someone who cost the North hundreds of thousands of lives in a horrific war of atrition a great general then sure. But personally I would consider one who finishes it fast with little casulties and with positive conditions a great general.
The federal government's policies are what caused the war of attrition. Grant was just one of the ones having to fight it. Wars of that magnitude are not fought without massive casualties, and do not end with positive conditions.
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