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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Apr 2019

    The best thing about Robert E. Lee is he was soundly defeated by a general whose brain was, at a minimum, 95% alcohol.

    4:45 PM - 26 Apr 2019
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      2. Danger & Cuddlekins‏ @Chiliandgarlic 26 Apr 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Said general, in his memoirs, was also happy to point out how unimpressed he was by Lee.

        2 replies 0 retweets 32 likes
      3. charles garrett‏ @garrett_charles 26 Apr 2019
        Replying to @Chiliandgarlic @HeerJeet

        and as Gore Vidal made a point to say Grant was probably the best writer to ever have been president.

        3 replies 1 retweet 36 likes
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      2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Unfair to Grant, a dry drunk who was actually sober most of the time.

        9 replies 4 retweets 162 likes
      3. (((Charlie Martin)))‏ @chasrmartin 26 Apr 2019
        Replying to @baseballcrank @HeerJeet

        I’m beginning to think that we’re lucky American education left people remembering there was a Civil War at all

        1 reply 0 retweets 40 likes
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      2. Warren Terra‏ @warren__terra 26 Apr 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I thought Grant's alcoholism, while very real, was episodic and flared up in times of inactivity and depression, which is to say, not during the civil war?

        12 replies 4 retweets 246 likes
      3. Warren Terra‏ @warren__terra 26 Apr 2019
        Replying to @warren__terra @HeerJeet

        Also: he was actually a very good general, and doesn't get credit for it?

        10 replies 2 retweets 217 likes
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      2. Luke Peristy‏ @Luke_H_Peristy 26 Apr 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        The best thing about every confederate general is when they lost

        1 reply 9 retweets 279 likes
      3. Cat Magnet‏ @michaelselkirk 27 Apr 2019
        Replying to @Luke_H_Peristy @HeerJeet

        That’s always my favorite part of that movie.

        0 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
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      2. Liam Liwanag Burke‏ @liamlburke 26 Apr 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        And he fought to a stalemate with McClellan, who is widely agreed to be such a bad general he couldn’t win a battle if he had all his opponent’s plans handed to him wrapped around a bunch of cigars

        3 replies 6 retweets 99 likes
      3. Ann Laabs  💗 💜 💙 🏳️‍🌈‏ @AnnLaabs 26 Apr 2019
        Replying to @liamlburke @HeerJeet

        History snap!pic.twitter.com/ribnpZpknL

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