Mcdowell

[hendrickms24]

If not McDowell who would you have promoted..please don't say old fuss and feathers.

I would take Gen Winfield Scott over anyone if he was 2o years younger and 100 pounds lighter. His experience and know how out weighted all the officers on both sides.

 

[hendrickms24]

I would take Gen Winfield Scott over anyone if he was 2o years younger and 100 pounds lighter. His experience and know how out weighted all the officers on both sides.

On more thought I change my statement to 200 pounds lighter. He was a big boy for 1860 standards!

 

[Pat Young]

I would take Gen Winfield Scott over anyone if he was 2o years younger and 100 pounds lighter. His experience and know how out weighted all the officers on both sides.

Since we can't realistically imagine him younger, maybe you are on to something him lighter. Would the first year of the war have turned out better for the Union if he had gone on a diet in 1860? I never thought of that.

 

[hendrickms24]

He did live until 1866 but being in the field may have put him in the grave sooner.
I have noticed sleeping on the ground with the Boy Scouts is a lot hard at 42 then it was at 18.
Getting old is for the birds sometimes.