Thursday, October 25, 2007
From Stones River to Chattanooga
I know of a half-dozen loyal Creeder Readers who will disagree with this:
"One of the great misconceptions of the Civil War arising from the century-long dominance of the Lost Cause School is the idea that Confederate generalship was superior to that of the North. According to the Lost Cause narrative, Confederate generals performed better than their Union counterparts until the emergence of leaders such as Ulysses S. Grant, who understood that he could employ Northern superiority in manpower and material to crush the South.
"In fact, there was only one successful Confederate army: the Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Robert E. Lee." [Emphasis mine]
"One of the great misconceptions of the Civil War arising from the century-long dominance of the Lost Cause School is the idea that Confederate generalship was superior to that of the North. According to the Lost Cause narrative, Confederate generals performed better than their Union counterparts until the emergence of leaders such as Ulysses S. Grant, who understood that he could employ Northern superiority in manpower and material to crush the South.
"In fact, there was only one successful Confederate army: the Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Robert E. Lee." [Emphasis mine]
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Thursday, October 25, 2007 
