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re: Better Confederate General: Jackson or Longstreet?
Posted on 12/25/14 at 3:55 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 12/25/14 at 3:55 pm to RollTide1987
I agree basicly with what you said about the Vickburg campaign. But without Jackson's performance in the Valley and later reinforcing Lee outside of Richmond the Confederacy would have ended there. Grant was also enabled by Joe Johnston's failure and Pemberton's incompetence at Vicksburg. IMO Uncle Joe was loved by his troops but he was a failure as a Confederate general. All one needs to do is research Joe Johnston's campaigns during the war.
Posted on 12/25/14 at 4:50 pm to AU86
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But without Jackson's performance in the Valley and later reinforcing Lee outside of Richmond the Confederacy would have ended there.
The war should have ended even with Jackson's reinforcing of Lee before the Seven Days Campaign. Lee's attacks against McClellan's lines were tactical failures that cost Lee twice the casualties that he inflicted. It was McClellan's generalship (or lack thereof) that caused the Union army to lose the campaign.
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Grant was also enabled by Joe Johnston's failure and Pemberton's incompetence at Vicksburg. IMO Uncle Joe was loved by his troops but he was a failure as a Confederate general. All one needs to do is research Joe Johnston's campaigns during the war.
Nathaniel Banks, John C. Fremont, Robert Schenck and James Shields (the commanders Jackson faced in the Valley) weren't exactly military geniuses either.
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