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Who was the Unions greatest soldier?
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:18 pm
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:18 pm
Chamberlain?
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Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:20 pm to CockCommander
Sherman
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:21 pm to CockCommander
Union won because of industrialization and a naval blockade. Southern baws had more heart and better strategy.
Good soldiers on both sides but Union had poor commanders besides Grant and Sherman while the South had a bunch of good commanders.
Good soldiers on both sides but Union had poor commanders besides Grant and Sherman while the South had a bunch of good commanders.
This post was edited on 4/4/20 at 7:23 pm
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:23 pm to Sus-Scrofa
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Sherman
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:25 pm to CockCommander
Likely George Armstrong Custer
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:26 pm to red sox fan 13
Anaconda Plan. Dissolution of Dix-Hill agreement. Money. Perceived moral high ground. Industrial base. Expendable immigrants.
Realize I didn’t answer. Edit to say I’m not sure.
Realize I didn’t answer. Edit to say I’m not sure.
This post was edited on 4/4/20 at 7:29 pm
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:31 pm to red sox fan 13
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the South had a bunch of good commanders.
Braxton Bragg says “hold my beer.”
Starting a war you have no chance of winning is not good strategy.
This post was edited on 4/4/20 at 7:33 pm
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:32 pm to NPComb
Sherman spent the first quarter of the war one step away from being relieved of duty.
He was outstanding in the last quarter, but was fighting a shell of an army that was already defeated.
I would say John Reynolds was up there before his death at Gettysburg. If he had been given the army of the Potomac earlier the war would’ve ended at Chancellorsville.
George Thomas was solid too, but the answer is Grant.
He was outstanding in the last quarter, but was fighting a shell of an army that was already defeated.
I would say John Reynolds was up there before his death at Gettysburg. If he had been given the army of the Potomac earlier the war would’ve ended at Chancellorsville.
George Thomas was solid too, but the answer is Grant.
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:33 pm to CockCommander
Grant
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:34 pm to tide06
quote:
the answer is Grant.
Winner. /thread
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:37 pm to CockCommander
Joe Blow
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:38 pm to CockCommander
Was this before or after they closed the cafeteria?
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:40 pm to CockCommander
Can't be Grant or Sherman since they both hated black people.
It's probably just some random soldier we didn't ever hear about, probably a bad arse that at some point got killed by a cannon.
It's probably just some random soldier we didn't ever hear about, probably a bad arse that at some point got killed by a cannon.
This post was edited on 4/4/20 at 7:41 pm
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:42 pm to RockChalkTiger
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This post was edited on 4/16/21 at 10:46 am
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:44 pm to CockCommander
The confederate soldier that shot Stonewall Jackson.
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:44 pm to CockCommander
Dead one
American by birth.
Southern by grace of God
American by birth.
Southern by grace of God
This post was edited on 4/4/20 at 7:45 pm
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:45 pm to CockCommander
Grant.
Won the war.
Won the war.
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:47 pm to red sox fan 13
quote:
Southern baws had more heart
There was certainly a lot of truth to the whole suggestion that the average Confederate was worth about 7 Yankees - that was likely pretty close in 1861 and, maybe, into 1862. But, by 1863, it was much closer to even.
And Yankee generals got better (meaning the terrible generals they started the war off kept getting fired and eventually replaced with better generals).
But, wars aren't really won on the battlefield, they're just fought there. Wars are won on the farms producing food, factories producing guns, arms, boots, ammunition, etc. And the Yanks produced more than they could use.
By the Spring of 1865, the Union Army had more troops in Colored regiments than the Confederate Army had in all regiments.
:letthatsinkin:
This post was edited on 4/4/20 at 7:49 pm
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:48 pm to CockCommander
Probably Hoffa
Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:53 pm to CockCommander
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Chamberlain
Chamberlain's story was cool considering he survived a "mortal" wound and returned to service but he wasn't even the hero of Little Round Top.
The hero of Little Round Top was "Paddy" O'Rourke and the 140th New York. O'Rourke's charge finally repelled the Alabamians and Texans and he died in the attack.
But, Chamberlain survived and lived to write his story, and prop up his reputation.
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