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My vote would be for James McPherson who was Grant's #2 favorite, right behind Sherman. Kirby Smith is another viable candidate. There's also the ones who showed great promise but died early in the war, men like Phil Kearney. The list is so long that you could spend days, months, even years debating the subject, but I would go with McPherson because of Grant's opinion and the more I study the man the more I trust his judgement, in military matters. As President he showed the judgement of a distractred gerbil as all the men he trusted pretty much robbed the country blind.
to me it the most underrated gernal is General Frank Crawford Armstrong of well i will let you see why read the following bio. please http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Crawford_Armstrong (i know wikipedia is not that good of a source but all of it is true)
It would have to be George Thomas, I think. He was one of the most capable army commanders in the war, saved the Army of the Cumberland at Chickamauga, and finished off Hood in Tennessee in 1864. Everyone forgets him, despite the fact that he was behind only Grant, Sherman, and Meade in the Union Army's seniority at the end of the war.
It would have to be George Thomas, I think. He was one of the most capable army commanders in the war, saved the Army of the Cumberland at Chickamauga, and finished off Hood in Tennessee in 1864. Everyone forgets him, despite the fact that he was behind only Grant, Sherman, and Meade in the Union Army's seniority at the end of the war.
well at that time Hood was dooped up and drunk because of his amputations...infact General Forrest said to him "Sir if you were half a man i would wip our A**" i mean if Hood was all right in the head he would have not sent his best general off to his death
