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![]() "Denyav" wrote in message ... you need to study the US civil war and compare MCCLELLAN and Grant to see why the US didnt like Monte. Grant lost way more people in one day then MCCLELLAN would loose in his whole tour, but Mcclellan would not gain any ground, Grant did. All Overwhelming force (translation ![]() Butchers like Grant or Sherman win and the finest officers North American continent has ever seen like Lee,Forrest or Stuart lose. In fact Lee lost a greater percentage of his troops then Grant ever did and Sherman's losses were suprisingly small considering the boldness of his campaigns, marching across the confederacy with an army of 60,000 men cutting their own roads through forests and swamps and laying waster to Georgia and the Carolina's was a complete revolution in military practise. Sherman and Grant were in many ways the first of the modern Generals ffighting a total war. Overall 11% of union soldiers became casualties compared with 15% of confederates. It was Lee who threw away men's lives at Gettysburg and Nathan Bedford Forrest who had his men launch a frontal attack on a Union force that badly outnumbered them at Tupelo suffering considerable losses to no effect. Worse still at Franklin John Bell Hood murdered 6000 of his own men and 6 generals in pointless frontal attacks that fatally weakened his army and led to its rout at Nashville. Keith |
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