Since the Lost Causers are all up in arms today (and seemingly every day; bunch of whiners these people), we're going to state categorically, once and for all, that Grant was a better general than Lee. And if you ask serious historians and military commanders, it isn't even all
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that close. Let's get at it. Lost Causers like to point at Lee being Lincoln's first choice to lead the Union Army as proof that Lee was a better general. The reality is that on the eve of the war, it was thought that Lee was the best officer in the U.S. because of a) his