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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even allowing for Jefferson Davis' control of grand strategy, Lee was an 1815 thinker whose Napoleonic ideas were outdated.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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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2019

      Lee, a devoted Napoleon acolyte, believed victory still came from concentrating your forces for decisive battle. Grant understood that war was evolving to one of extended, coordinated fronts & campaigns & operational tempo. Of course, Lee lacked the resources for that kind of war

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2019

      (Of course, both Grant & Lee made crucial battlefield mistakes at times, from Pickett's Charge to Cold Harbor. Neither was perfect. Arguably the greatest general of the age was Moltke, although he had the chance to study & learn from the American experience.)

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        2. S D Winkler‏ @sdwinkler 26 Apr 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Lee was also very lucky when he had to be, as in Chancellorsville. Though he paid dearly there.

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        3. R B Weaver‏ @RickyBobWeaver 27 Apr 2019
          Replying to @sdwinkler @baseballcrank

          He was not lucky at Antietam with The Lost Order. Part of his “luck” was the was he maintained the initiative and intimidated his opponents. Stonewall Jackson and Forrest did the same. Grant and Sherman also kept the initiative.

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        1. Chris Bingham‏ @BinghamForReal 26 Apr 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          What I hear: You love Gen. Lee, everything he stood for, and you love slavery because you praised one aspect of the man. Got it. #sarcasm

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        2. streiff‏ @streiffredstate 26 Apr 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          When you look at the Prussian casualties at the Battle of Gravelotte you can see that Moltke hadn't completely digested the lessons of our Civil War

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2019
          Replying to @streiffredstate

          Also Moltke gets a lot of credit for grasping the power of movement of infantry by rails, but Edwin Stanton got there first, and he was a patent lawyer from Ohio.

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        1. Bill Barr Baggins‏ @ZombieBillBarr 26 Apr 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          The devil is also an impressive tactition, but no one writes Twitter threads extoling his brilliance. Cleverness is praiseworthy only to the extent that it is deployed in order to achieve good and noble ends.

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        1. Dominic Lynch‏ @domineeringDom 26 Apr 2019
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          I don’t get the sense Grant was necessarily a superior tactician than Lee, but Grant’s advantage was that he was willing to fight in a way previous Union generals avoided by bleeding the rebels white.

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        2. Phil Unwin‏ @phunwin 26 Apr 2019
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          Take note of Lee's decline in performance after Stonewall Jackson's death. Almost all his best work came with Jackson as one of his field commanders.

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        3. Phil Prange‏ @PhilPrange 26 Apr 2019
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          Yes.

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        1. Adam Langworthy‏ @tigersfanmaggs 26 Apr 2019
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          He was definitely superior to Moltke the younger

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