[Colonel Kangaroo]

Halleck, McClellan, Pope, Burnside, were Union Officers and Valuable assets to the Confederate Armies

No more than General Hood was an asset to the Union cause.

[mainepatsfan]

That frontal assault at Franklin was well thought out. /sarcasm

[AntiBurr]

Halleck's relegation of Grant to "second in command" effectively isolating him from the army nearly resulted in Grant resigning. Sherman talked Grant into staying and that only hours before he would have left. Linclon did the only possible thing with Halleck, he kicked him upstairs and let Grant and Sherman get on with the war.
Years after the war, Halleck told General Thomas that Grant had sent Logan to relieve him at Nashville because Thomas was so slow to attack. Grant did not know that there had been an ice storm which immobilized the army for several days. Thomas attacked when conditions allowed and the Battle of Nashville was the only one of the war that effectively destroyed an army..Hood's.
Thomas died of a heart attack while writing a letter to Grant defending himself over the battle. Grant felt that "Old Brains" had effectively killed Thomas.

[smug]

Y'all have a good point there.