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Since we had a topic about the most effective generals who is your least favorite or maybe least effective?
I personally detest Sheridan but John B. Hood was very ineffective .
Part of my feelings against Sheridan stem from actions after the War between the States when he sent blankets infected with smallpox to wipe out the Indians.
H.H BuggfuzzWhat about Sherman? Couldn’t he be considered a “least favorite” simply for his ushering in the age of total warfare? Up to that point, what would have motivated someone to inflict massive damage on property, and perhaps on life itself?
Sherman did indeed start the concept of warfare on civilians, I didn’t pick him because of the generous surrender terms he offered at the end of the war. Also he and Grant went to bat for Gen, Lee when the congress wanted to try R.E. Lee for treason after Lincoln’s death.
Most Georgians tho hate the name "Sherman"I would say Nathan Bedford Forrest, Earl Van Dorn, John Bell Hood, and Leonidas Polk were the four worst Confederate generals. Benjamin Butler, Ambrose Burnside, and the duo of Pope and Halleck were the worst Union generals.
The most conservative generals both sides were Joeseph E. Johnston C.S.A. and George B. MacClellan U.S.A.
The biggest primadonnas were George Pickett, Albert Sydney Johnston, J.E.B. Stuart, P.T.G. Beauregard, and Richard Taylor for the South........Phil Sheridan, James MacPhereson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joe Hooker, and George Custer (still a colonel during the war but he was a primadonna if ever there was one) for the North.Donnie
I think you nailed the primadonnas pretty well.
When Hooker took over he said his headquarters would be in the saddle. Some wit said that his headquarters were where his hindquarters ought to be.
A professor once said that P.T.G. Beauregard's name was taller than he was.DonnieI think you nailed the primadonnas pretty well.When Hooker took over he said his headquarters would be in the saddle. ?Some wit said that his headquarters were where his hindquarters ought to be.A professor ?once said that P.T.G. Beauregard's name was taller than he was.
John C. Pemberton was the unluckiest general, but he wasn't all that gifted in military tactics either. In a way, most of the Civil War generals were oddballs one way or the other. 😀
I think I have to go with Sheriden as well for some of the already stated reasons. I also am not a big fan of Little Mac.
Jubal Early and J.E.B. Stuart were far better cavalry men than he, and John Hunt Morgan for that matter too.
my least favorite Union is sherman because he destroied the south…least favorite southern is john bell hood beacause he sent four of my ancestors to their deaths and my favorite general Patrick Cleburne.
While I don't have an in-depth familiarity with the record of most of the generals on either side, from what I do know, Henry Hopkins Sibley strikes me as a particularly unimpressive commander, with his botched New Mexico Campaign.
While I don't have an in-depth familiarity with the record of most of the generals on either side, from what I do know, Henry Hopkins Sibley strikes me as a particularly unimpressive commander, with his botched New Mexico Campaign.
He was a drunken old fool from what I gather. But, at least he didn't do much harm to the Confederate's cause since even success in New Mexico would have done very little anyway.
