@Gflintham1790. A sword fight between Hampton and Sheridan! Hadn't heard that one. Thanks for posting that. Your right, they don't make movies about this stuff, but maybe they should.
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A campaign against the C Team vaulted Stonewall into prominence.True, although one campaign against the B-team doesn't prove a lot.
Agreed. I've heard it argued he was even better than Stuart. Regardless, he was one of the best cavalry generals of the war and seems to be mostly appreciated during the war, but I doubt many people today know his name unless they are a Civil War buff. Maybe in his home state of South Carolina, and even then perhaps more for his postwar political career.
I'll nominate Wade Hampton. He always led from the front and was highly reliable when following orders. He was one of the first to make good use of dismounted cavalry. He fought well at Trevilian Station. After the death of Jeb Stuart he did a very capable job of commanding the cavalry of the ANV under very difficult circumstances.
Gen. Josiah Gorgas seems to be appreciated in that circle of historians and Civil War buffs with a special interest in ordnance and logistics, but not so much to a broader public. I know I had never heard of him until I started reading this forum.
Although I believe the generalship of Braxton Bragg, has, generally, been propertly appreciated, I sometimes think his contribution to extending the confederacys war in the west by at least a year, with his invasion of Ky in 1862, has been properly appreciated., On that basis, Baggs contribution to confederate war for independence has ot, IMO, been properly appreciated.
General Josiah Gorgas, chief of ordnance for the CSA.
He has be very unfairly treated by history.
I thought it was Kilpatrick not Sheridan.@Gflintham1790. A sword fight between Hampton and Sheridan! Hadn't heard that one. Thanks for posting that. Your right, they don't make movies about this stuff, but maybe they should.
John
I thought it was Kilpatrick not Sheridan.
I agree. As you can probably tell from my screen name, I'm a fan of Longstreet. He was the scapegoat for the south when they wanted someone to blame, and didn't want to blame R.E. Lee. We all know what happened at Gettysburg and what Longstreet advised. Throughout the war he was always very level headed and definitely unappreciated at the end.James Longstreet, a man who was vilified for years by many of his contemporaries in an effort to blame him for the defeat of the rebel cause.
Longstreet was right at gettysberg. also said he coulda cut the unio army in half at James river but didn't because it woulda taken too long to get lees approval, and time didn't permit that. that kind of decisive action woulda been done in the early years but not later as in '64 when they were racing to the Petersburg defenses.James Longstreet, a man who was vilified for years by many of his contemporaries in an effort to blame him for the defeat of the rebel cause.
he woulda won the wilderness if he hadn't got shot.I agree. As you can probably tell from my screen name, I'm a fan of Longstreet. He was the scapegoat for the south when they wanted someone to blame, and didn't want to blame R.E. Lee. We all know what happened at Gettysburg and what Longstreet advised. Throughout the war he was always very level headed and definitely unappreciated at the end.
really. I haven't read that or heard it. I woulda thot it'd be a.p. hill or old peteI would nominate Major General Robert F. Hoke "Lee's most modest warrior" He was even rumored to be Lee's hand-picked successor as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.
James Longstreet, a man who was vilified for years by many of his contemporaries in an effort to blame him for the defeat of the rebel cause.
The book is in print. Check it out, very good read. Thanksreally. I haven't read that or heard it. I woulda thot it'd be a.p. hill or old pete