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General Grant was different than others, he was willing to keep ordering his men into battle, even after thousands of deaths and maiming injuries, he kept pushing them forward at the enemy. He was called “The Butcher”.

He is called a butcher and yet while Grant commanded army-sized units longer than Lee did, Lee had more of his men killed and wounded under his command then Grant did. Lee has the better PR I guess.

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He is called a butcher and yet while Grant commanded army-sized units longer than Lee did, Lee had more of his men killed and wounded under his command then Grant did. Lee has the better PR I guess.

When you play a numbers game like Lee and Grant did, and your playing on the same ground using the same tactics, the guy with a lot more troops (and who is willing to expend them as needed) is going to kick your butt. As far as PR, the image of both men was cultivated during and immediately after the war - Lee was supposed to be the prim and proper Southern gentleman, Grant the pugnacious task master that tended to have a more blunt view of things.