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even allowing for Jefferson Davis' control of grand strategy, Lee was an 1815 thinker whose Napoleonic ideas were outdated.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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Lee was also very lucky when he had to be, as in Chancellorsville. Though he paid dearly there.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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He was definitely superior to Moltke the younger
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