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The only reason that war lasted so long was Union incompetence.
Lee couldn’t help but look good because everyone else was so bad.
Both sides made big mistakes and it is a war that never should have been fought in the first place.
I think Grant was a butcher. He was way too free with the lives of his men and just overwhelmed them with numbers.
Sherman would have been hung as a war criminal if he had lived today. He waged a war of terror against the civilian population. They hung Germans for doing less than what he did in the south.
Meade’s great victory was holding defensive positions while Lee bled himself dry…and then let what was left go back to VA and continue the war for another year and a half or so.
The south never had a chance. It lacked everything from the very start of the war.
All it had were some competent officers. It is impossible to say how they would have done had their opposition been well lead.
It is easy enough to admire some of the leaders for their exploits but if they could have accomplished that against a well lead foe is an open question.
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