Who are your most admired Civil War figures?

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This is just for fun. Who are the people from the Civil War you find most to be admired?

Here's my short list of six:

- Sam Houston for being one clear-headed, outspoken southerner who refused to be swept up in secession-mania, even to the point of being removed from his governorship. The South needed more leaders like him.
- Patrick Cleburne for having the courage to challenge sacred cows and promote the enlistment of slaves in exchange for their freedom.
- Clement Vallandigham for having the courage to challenge the powers that be during wartime and pay the price for civil liberties.
- U.S. Grant for his sheer determination to keep coming at problems from a different angle until he found one that worked.
- R.E. Lee for not flinching at the long odds facing him. Ever. And then accepting the outcomes with grace. Always.
- Abe Lincoln for remaining patient and faithful all those years to a wife who'd make a perfect poster child for borderline personality disorder.
 
Robert E. Lee because as he put it ""I fought the enemy at every step. I believe I got out of [my army] all they could do or all any men could do."

Stonewall Jackson because he showed the impact that can be made when courage, determination, and faith are focused like a laser beam.

Colonel Robert Shaw for the courage to command an African American regiment and his distaste for the targeting of civilians in war.
 
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Abe Lincoln, because he was Abe Lincoln, R G Shaw because he was so young and brave training the 54th MA which was a very unpopular thing to do, R. E Lee because he was a brilliant and humble man and a great General, Joshua L Chamberlain because of his maneuvers on Little Round Top. All the men, regardless of rank who fought in the ACW
 
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R. E. Lee.
U. S. Grant.
W. T. Sherman.
J. E. B. Stuart.
J. B. Gordon.
J. L. Chamberlain.
T. J. Jackson.
J. Longstreet.
G. Pickett.
J. Buford.
W. S. Hancock.
J. F. Reynolds.
J. B. Hood.
N. B. Forrest.

If you take Hood out, it's a very nice list. :smile:
 
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This is just for fun. Who are the people from the Civil War you find most to be admired?

Here's my short list of six:

- Sam Houston for being one clear-headed, outspoken southerner who refused to be swept up in secession-mania, even to the point of being removed from his governorship. The South needed more leaders like him.

Of course, we furnished Louis T. Wigfall to balance him out. :help:
 
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On the Confederate side:
R. E. Lee: he stands head and shoulders above the rest. No one on the southern side compares. Only Confederate who really understood what it would take to win the war.
Josiah Gorgias: The CSA ordinance chief. Considering the conditions he worked under, an extraordinary accomplishment.

There's a lot of Forrest love on the forum, but I can't get past the slavedealing before the war, and the KKK after.

On the Union side:
Lincoln. A influential world figure, as well as our greatest president.
 
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On the Confederate side:
R. E. Lee: he stands head and shoulders above the rest. No one on the southern side compares. Only Confederate who really understood what it would take to win the war.
Josiah Gorgias: The CSA ordinance chief. Considering the conditions he worked under, an extraordinary accomplishment.

There's a lot of Forrest love on the forum, but I can't get past the slavedealing before the war, and the KKK after.
I agree with you about Lincoln He was the greatest president this country ever had
On the Union side:
Lincoln. A influential world figure, as well as our greatest president.
 
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