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monkmith posted...

well, for one he's the primary reason we didn't have decades of gorilla warfare all throughout the south at the end of the civil war. many of the other southern leaders were pushing for it. its the only reason off hand i can think of to respect him.

the classical reason brought up is that he took an inferior army from a technological standpoint and won a bunch of battles against superior forces, though mostly that had to do with truly shit generals in the northern army.

And good subordinate generals in the south. As the war goes on the shitty commanders in the north eventually get killed or fired allowing the good officers to rise to higher positions whereas in the south the more competent officers get killed throughout the war and the confederacy has very few people to replace them.

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