To: moderatewolverine
Neither Grant nor Sherman would have had distinguished careers if not for the war, they certainly would have never made General.
On the other hand Lee was the direct result of the Army at the time. That said, most of the good senior officers at the beginning of the war were southerners.
11 posted on
05/22/2008 4:23:39 AM PDT by
SampleMan
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To: SampleMan
“That said, most of the good senior officers at the beginning of the war were southerners.”
and most of those were made in the Mexican War, including Lee who was probably on the way out. He was just an aging Captain engineer building forts before the Mexican War. He had been passed over many times.
15 posted on
05/22/2008 5:08:05 AM PDT by
neb52
To: SampleMan
On the other hand Lee was the direct result of the Army at the time. That said, most of the good senior officers at the beginning of the war were southerners.
Grant and Sherman were good, but Lee was in a class by himself.
44 posted on
05/23/2008 6:55:47 AM PDT by
JamesP81
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