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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 Surely,If your Army is 100000 men strong the loss of 5000 men percentagewise insignificant,But if you have only 25000 men,loss of 5000 men is very significant. Even during so called Union victory at Gettysburg, Union lost more soldiers than Confederates but percentagewise Union casaulties were less than 25% of their streght,but Lee lost almost half of his force. 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 Dare to compare their actions with Nathan Forrests'. (He could not even dream of having 60000 men ) a complete revolution in military practise. Sherman and Grant were in many ways the first of the modern Generals ffighting a total war. He was simply a Butcher without military finesse of Lee and other Confederate commanders. His legacy is the main reason why US military was and is unable to win anywhere without "overwhelming power" which always means "lots of gun fodders". 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. They had no other chance,unlike Union that was able to replace losses within days with fresh immigrants,they had no chance of fighting on equal or near equal terms. 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. True.But when you speak about Confederates you speak about American Aristocrats and Knights,a breed that unfortunately does not exist in US anymore. BTW I am sure you know the story of light cavallery during Crimean War.Mistakes happen in wars,sometimes the mistakes themselves show the quality of fighters who try to carry out orders. |
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