5fish
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I have seen of late all these personal attacks on General Grant and I come with this thread to end these attacks on the General Grant. General Grant was simply the best general of our civil war. If you go by the causality data, Grant wins hands down. During the the war, he lost a little over 15% of his soldiers under his command to combat while Lee lost a little over 20% of his soldiers under his command to combat. There were several other generals that lost over 19% of their soldiers to combat. Here is a link to a page in a book that goes over the causality data showing it was better to be a soldier under Grant then Lee if you wanted to survive the war untouched. Scroll down to the the header The Other Side: and start going over the causality data comparing the two generals...
https://books.google.com/books?id=xzxBCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT112&lpg=PT112&dq=Edward+H+Bonekemper+compares+General+Lee+and+General+Grant&source=bl&ots=3ul-Z_DkOD&sig=N_SwNuvph9YgJ7HWBbwcxf5uifE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEYQ6AEwB2oVChMIhJPv6riayQIVBO0mCh0H4Aqy#v=onepage&q=Edward H Bonekemper compares General Lee and General Grant&f=false
Is not the object of war is to kill more of your foe then of your own? Lee fails this test while Grant passes with flying colors...
https://books.google.com/books?id=xzxBCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT112&lpg=PT112&dq=Edward+H+Bonekemper+compares+General+Lee+and+General+Grant&source=bl&ots=3ul-Z_DkOD&sig=N_SwNuvph9YgJ7HWBbwcxf5uifE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEYQ6AEwB2oVChMIhJPv6riayQIVBO0mCh0H4Aqy#v=onepage&q=Edward H Bonekemper compares General Lee and General Grant&f=false
Is not the object of war is to kill more of your foe then of your own? Lee fails this test while Grant passes with flying colors...