1. This is tangential, but I'm always puzzled by the amount of credit people are willing to give to loser generals like Lee & Rommel.
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Lee understood the political situation that Grant was in, that the people of North had far less patience for the kind of attrition that Grant's strategy depended on. The election very easily could have gone the other way.
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Could also argue that but for a few lucky (unlucky depending) bullets that took out Sidney Johnson and Stonewall Jackson the war could have gone in another direction and Lee wouldn't have been a "loser" at least militarily.
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