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The Magistrate

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3. Lee's Reputation As a General, Sir

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Fri Jun 5, 2020, 02:39 PM

Jun 2020

Owes chiefly to the low quality of the generals opposing him, most particularly McClellan. A competent fighting general, just about any of the Union leaders in the latter portion of the war, would have ruined Lee in 1862, and even McClellan nearly managed it at Antietam, after having thrown away almost every advantage in his possession for days. Even at the end, had he not been prey to the delusion Lee had fresh reserves in hand, McClellan could have finished the thing then and there.

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