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Subject: Grant vs Lee, Sherman vs Lee, and Grant vs J. Johnston.
vietasianfox45    6/4/2007 5:38:12 AM
Here are three interesting questions. 1. Who do you think was a better general between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee?? 2. Who do you think was a better general between William T. Sherman and Robert E. Lee?? 3. Who do you think was a better general between Ulysses S. Grant and Joseph E. Johnston?? In my opinion, those four were the best generals of the war, with the exception of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. I think he would have been South's second-in-command if he had not been killed. Joseph Johnston proved that he was able to beat Sherman when Sherman did a frontal attack on his army. It was Davis' fatal mistake in relieving Johnston from command.
 
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Clackers       11/12/2007 4:42:20 AM
I don't know how much credit a general can claim for his dug-in troops repelling a frontal assault, Vietasianfox ... it's not really a rare event. 

If Johnston had beaten Sherman later at Peachtree Creek, he could have hung his hat off that, but we'll never know how that would have turned out - attacking didn't seem to be his 'thing'. Certainly, the more aggressive John Bell Hood carried out Johnston's intention to attack there and failed ...
 
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CJH       11/21/2007 2:56:06 PM
1. At the risk of selling Grant short, I would say that Lee was the better of the two. I believe that Grant would have acknowledged Lee as the better general.
 
2. As a leader of men, Lee probably was better but as a strategist, Liddell Hart seemed to believe Sherman was the outstanding general of the whole war.
 
3. I would try to characterize this comparison.
 
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