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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: chalu2 who wrote (5203)9/11/1999 4:58:00 PM
From: Merritt  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769667
 
C2:

<<then every Union general would have done as well as he since almost all had large numbers at their command.>>

Not every Union General was willing to sacrifice his troops to the degree that Grant did. The Union was hungry for success, so the media overlooked his pedestrian grasp of tactics and looked only at results.

<<I know that you have been wounded in those Wars many times,>>

You reveal either your ignorance, or most likely, a desire to transfer your own experience somewhere else.