[at-l] Racism on or around the AT

[winchester@unnet.com (Ron Winchester)]

> > the South
> > better generals, overall; it had R.E. Lee of course (probably the greatest
> > general of the war),
>
> Whadda ya meal "PROBABLY the greatest general of the war"!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> :-)
>
> Kinnickinic
>

Lee may actually be one of the finest American Generals of all time in spite of
his mistakes.  I'm speaking more of the person and his convictions than of his
strategies, and yet strategically he was brilliant.

Pickett was also an admirable person.  His charge at Gettysburg was the result
of orders being passed down from General Lee via Longstreet -- too many
generals???

Lee in fact accepted full blame for the massacre, honorable gentleman that he
was.  Longstreet lived well into his 90's and was never able to fully reconcile
the role he played at Gettysburg, nor Lee's orders to charge.

And the style of fighting in ranks or lines is often referred to as Napoleonic
warfare.  It was beginning to disappear by the end of the Civil War, with
Pickett's Charge perhaps being the last full scale use of this strategy.
Baltimore Jack may correct me if I'm wrong -- I could read his posts about Civil
War history all day long, a scholarly fellow if but a trail bum.

Damned Yankee,

Ron