Good Soldier Shweik
Private
- Joined
- Oct 17, 2018
- Location
- on a volcano
I was looking at the discussion of Cold Harbor by General Grant. His opinion of the attack that day is brutally frank as unnecessary and foolish. Of course he tried to justify a simalar attack during the Vicksburg campaign, but it only makes the opinion of the Cold Harbor assault more criminal.
Grant mades some very frank statements about things in general in his Memoirs. Since he would be dead when anyone read them and past caring he could give some pretty severe blasts, and some praise for odd quarters.
His remarks on the Mexican war are, even now, mildly shocking. He characterized it as a robbery and violent assault on a weak neighbor.
His final blast against Lee was harsh. After praising his courage and quality of his leadership he gives him both barrels for allying himself with essentially a criminal enterprise that was the worst that anyone could be with.
Grant mades some very frank statements about things in general in his Memoirs. Since he would be dead when anyone read them and past caring he could give some pretty severe blasts, and some praise for odd quarters.
His remarks on the Mexican war are, even now, mildly shocking. He characterized it as a robbery and violent assault on a weak neighbor.
His final blast against Lee was harsh. After praising his courage and quality of his leadership he gives him both barrels for allying himself with essentially a criminal enterprise that was the worst that anyone could be with.