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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (124)	1/30/2003 5:52:18 AM
From: KonKilo	Respond to of 341

With what he did to Burnside, Lee must have thought Lincoln was a secret Confederate agent. LOL... Yeah, at Fredericksburg, Burnside kept setting them up and the rebs, behind the stone wall, especially, just kept knocking them down. And at Antietam, when ol' Burnside (did you know that a play on his name gave us the term 'sideburns'?) insisted that his troops cross on that ill-starred bridge, under fire, instead of just wading across and being done with it.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (124)	1/30/2003 6:00:43 AM
From: KonKilo	Respond to of 341

Hey, I think Burnside did more to win the war for the Confederacy. As tragic and costly in lives as Burnside's "generalship" was, though, at least it did not cost his side the war. Bragg's refusal to take Longstreet's advice to hold Bridgeport in force, and his pathetic defense of the strongest ground the South ever held, at Mission Ridge, led directly to the fall of Chattanooga, which gave the Union THE crucial rail junction in the South and the resulting enormous supply depot that fueled the taking of Atlanta, the March to the Sea, soon followed by Lee's surrender. At Chattanooga, Bragg was also far too busy fighting his own officers to fight the enemy.