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To: yesthatjallen
Lee was a fine general, but he wasn't the general that the Confederacy needed in order to win.

Maybe such a general didn't and couldn't exist: something to think about when people think about going to war.

The war that Lee wanted to fight wasn't one that he could have won -- not against Grant anyway.

His chief hope was that the other side would give up.

265 posted on 10/13/2018 1:40:01 PM PDT by x
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To: x
His chief hope was that the other side would give up.

Which is the exact situation of that other famous slave owning general from Virginia who fought for Independence from a Union on behalf of a confederacy of slave owning states. :)

269 posted on 10/13/2018 1:47:41 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: x
Agree. The USA was not in the fight for it's existence AND EVERYONE AT THE TIME KNEW IT.

The meme that the South wanted to conquer that North is total BS fairy tale. The USA would have been fine either way with or without the South. The war was a choice and not necessity for the North. They fought it like that too.

296 posted on 10/13/2018 9:16:52 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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