Greatest American Civil War Leader
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.Anaxagoras
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Thomas for the Union and Cleburne for the Confederacy. I ended up going with Cleburne, though.
Why is William Hardee not on the list?
Why is William Hardee not on the list?
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His record as a cavalry commander resembles that of Charlie Brown at baseball. His record in the Valley is beating Early's army time after time - but never destroying his army despite having as good a chance to do so as anyone ever had.
About all that he has that's unambiguous a great feat is the final pursuit of the ANV, and there much of the work was done by a subordinate he fired out of something hard to distinguish from spite.
He also did well early in the war, closing the North Carolina coast. And late in the war, when he beat Longstreet.
Grant is the easy winner here. He was the only commander to capture an entire army and did so three times at Donaldson, Vicksburg and Appomattox. He was also one of the few that never lost a major campaign.
Snake Featherston
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Grant. The war can accurately be described as Ulysses S. Grant and his Amazing Friends.
Wonder what would have happened had he been in command at the time of Antietam.
Abraham Lincoln. Probably the most important Commander-in-Cheif in US history.