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Historian of the 19th Century U.S. and Associate Prof. at Maryville College. Author of Rebels on the Border and Civil War along Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau

Maryville, TN
Joined June 2009

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2019

      Robert E. Lee was a great tactician who often prevailed or endured against superior forces. As a strategist, even allowing for Jefferson Davis' control of grand strategy, Lee was an 1815 thinker whose Napoleonic ideas were outdated. Grant & Sherman were the men of the future.

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      Aaron Astor‏ @AstorAaron 26 Apr 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Also consider the mismatch of Union military leadership prowess in the West (Grant, Sherman, Thomas) v. the East (McClellan, Hooker, Burnside); the reverse was true for the CSA. Their best generals were in the East (Lee, Jackson) and worst in the West (Bragg esp.).

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        2. Anthony Calabrese  🇺🇸 🇮🇹‏ @AnthonyCalabr12 26 Apr 2019
          Replying to @AstorAaron @baseballcrank

          At one point Jeff Davis supposedly offered command of the Army of the Tennessee to Longstreet (who was there with two divisions). Longstreet however was too loyal to Lee. Considering the union leadership I am not sure it would have made a difference.

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        3. Aaron Astor‏ @AstorAaron 26 Apr 2019
          Replying to @AnthonyCalabr12 @baseballcrank

          Are you talking about at Chattanooga in October-November 1863? Davis visited and tried to quell a mutiny led by Hindman, S.D. Lee and Longstreet, but Davis backed Bragg and sent Longstreet on his foolish mission to Knoxville.

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        2. Justin‏ @KeystoneObsrvr 26 Apr 2019
          Replying to @AstorAaron @baseballcrank

          Yep- Grant was a solid talent scout (Sherman, Sheridan, McPherson) but the mismatch is pretty comical- Army of the Potomac produced an outstanding Corps leader with Hancock, two good one in Reynolds and Sedgewick, and that’s about it.

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        2. Michael Millican‏ @Millican17 26 Apr 2019
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          Consider also that for most of the Overland Campaign Lee was without Longstreet, had A.P. Hill indisposed with syphilis, and had to fire Richard Ewell after Spotsylvania. The leadership of the Army of Northern Virginia in Fall '64 is nowhere near where it was '62/'64

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        3. Aaron Astor‏ @AstorAaron 26 Apr 2019
          Replying to @Millican17 @baseballcrank

          Longstreet returned to Lee's army before the Overland Campaign really took off at Wilderness, May 1864.

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        1. doug marcus‏ @dougmarcus 26 Apr 2019
          Replying to @AstorAaron @baseballcrank

          confederates never knew how easy they had it. confeds losing stonewall and the union moving sheridan to the shenandonah valley crippled lee. lee had a smaller force so relied on putting the right amount of men at the right time. that was stonewall.

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        2. Kevin Brown‏ @kay100bee 26 Apr 2019
          Replying to @AstorAaron @baseballcrank

          Would you say the union hall of incompetence was worse than the CSA's. And i have always thought the csa in the west was under manned and supplied

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        3. Aaron Astor‏ @AstorAaron 26 Apr 2019
          Replying to @kay100bee @baseballcrank

          Worse? No. But yes, the CSA in the West was under-prioritized. Hell, the capital was moved to Richmond so Jeff Davis could have better operational control of what he knew would be the major front.

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