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even allowing for Jefferson Davis' control of grand strategy, Lee was an 1815 thinker whose Napoleonic ideas were outdated.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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And Grant, the failed farmer, was the guy who made stringing telegraph wire along with the army a priority.
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Ever read a history of transport and communications in the Civil War? I have not. (Loving
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