tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861468.post1022959659020077307..comments2024-03-12T09:16:40.228-04:00Comments on Dyspeptic Mutterings: Robert E. Lee's Most Capable Opponent?DPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12249117106906577345noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861468.post-45962769792820703712015-10-01T08:59:26.864-04:002015-10-01T08:59:26.864-04:00That's the best argument I've heard for it...That's the best argument I've heard for it--bravo! Robert E. Lee was always looking for a Cannae, but never got it.DPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12249117106906577345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861468.post-16335808668743240462015-09-30T13:48:59.017-04:002015-09-30T13:48:59.017-04:00Sorry to be late. to this, but here's my bits ...Sorry to be late. to this, but here's my bits of copper: Both men would have studied classical warfare in their training, especially the wars of Rome. With McClellan delaying, avoiding battle and waiting for the naval blockade to do its work, Lee may have seen him playing a Fabius Maximus to his Hannibal. Bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01201581440686945990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861468.post-91523218384289125642015-09-25T02:14:30.178-04:002015-09-25T02:14:30.178-04:00I have always been mystified by Lee's comment,...I have always been mystified by Lee's comment, too.<br /><br />Part of me has thought like newguy,and questioned whether he even said it. Part of me wonders if he said it, but that it was distorted by the reporter, or misremembered. And part of me wondered if it wasn't the residue of resentment at Grant - the general who really was the capable field commander Lee faced - having beaten Athelstanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07346012062816580296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861468.post-88674749304521535762015-09-23T17:08:19.032-04:002015-09-23T17:08:19.032-04:00It's also possible that Lee never said those w...It's also possible that Lee never said those words either. My (admittedly poor) recollection of the incident was published after Lee died in 1870. A newspaperman got lucky and caught a mellow post Appomattox Lee in a talkative mood and came up with that statement about Little Mac. I know there was a great deal of mis-remembered and flat out self serving lies common among post civil war newguy40https://www.blogger.com/profile/07691117339629857830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861468.post-77820073091100181092015-09-23T16:07:24.229-04:002015-09-23T16:07:24.229-04:00That's as good a guess as any. When battle fin...That's as good a guess as any. When battle finally came, McClellan was always prepared to fight it. DPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12249117106906577345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861468.post-27542935823946354682015-09-23T15:17:29.994-04:002015-09-23T15:17:29.994-04:00That is something that I've considered too.
C...That is something that I've considered too.<br /><br />Could it be because Mac was a fellow Engineer like himself. Clearly, Mac was a very capable organizer but not a fighter and he let his politics affect how he fought Johnson and then Lee. Mac was a known quantity and he didn't expect him to make mistakes on the field.<br /><br /><br /><br />newguy40https://www.blogger.com/profile/07691117339629857830noreply@blogger.com