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whitebeach10/31/2017 2:57:55 pm PDT

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Lucian B. Wintrich ✔ @lucianwintrich
Anyone with even a remote sense of military history knows what a brilliant general Lee was

Makes you wonder how much military history, esp. Civil War military history, this Wintrich jerk knows. Sure, the Lost Cause school painted Lee as a genius and Grant as a blundering butcher, but for quite a while now that view has been seriously questioned. Lee’s invasion of Pennsylvania was a disaster, rife with errors and culminated by an insane attack across open terrain against fortified defenders on higher ground. (Lee’s loses for the three days of Gettysburg were greater than the Union’s losses for any three-day period under Grant, and altogether for the war, Lee lost more soldiers under his command than any other general, including Grant.) Throughout the Overland Campaign that ended in Lee’s surrender, he was outmaneuvered by Grant, who continually forced him closer and closer to Richmond and the final siege at Petersburg.

Don’t get me wrong, Lee was a talented commander. But he wasn’t the god of war that his swooning admirers try to make him.