The worst General- North and South

[cw1865]

What does that mean?

[PINCKNEYUSMCRET]

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[Nico_Davout]

Originally Posted by 5fish

The question is: Was he the scapegoat for Lee or Jackson?

Freeman, Lee`s Lieutenants:

When Lee wrote his report of the campaign, he distinguished between Huger`s failure and that of Jackson by a delicate choice of words: "Huger not coming up, and Jackson having been unable to force a passage of White Oak Swamp".

When I have read about Huger in Lee`s Lieutenants during Seven Days Battles, he was slow and not aggressive enough, but what can one say about Jackson in the same time!?

[5fish]

Originally Posted by Nico_Davout

Freeman, Lee`s Lieutenants:

When Lee wrote his report of the campaign, he distinguished between Huger`s failure and that of Jackson by a delicate choice of words: "Huger not coming up, and Jackson having been unable to force a passage of White Oak Swamp".

When I have read about Huger in Lee`s Lieutenants during Seven Days Battles, he was slow and not aggressive enough, but what can one say about Jackson in the same time!?

I thought it was Jackson for his performance during the Seven Days battle was poor. I will go as far as to say if Jackson would had lived up to his hipe during the Seven Days Battles, Lee could have destroyed the union army.

Yes, this is the battle were Jackson failed Lee in the same manner Longstreet, Ewell and Stuart failed Lee at Gettysburg.

It was early in the war and Jackson at the time was the most popular General in the AoNV. so Huger had to pay the price. Jackson career goes untainted unlike the others I mention.