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Mike Serpa

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Does anybody know why we see Custer, but not McClellan?!

Perhaps because McClellan turned Democrat and ran against Lincoln in 1864?

And I would not have recognized Sherman, LOL, he looks like Napoleon with a full beard!

You think that's bad? Check out Phillip Sheridan in the bottom left hand corner.
 
As a piece of period graphic art, I like it a lot. The portraits are all rather primitive but the overall design is pretty nice for the period.
 
Have no clue who this guy is. Learn something new every day!
He was a general in a lot of the out-of-the-way campaigns. He's probably better known as commander of one of the columns during the Little Big Horn campaign.

Since this was obviously produced near or even after the war's end, Terry was then-popular as the commander of the amphibious expedition that finally succeeded in capturing Fort Fisher and completing the Union blockade of the Atlantic coast. Political General Ben Butler had originally been in command until he blundered the first assault against the stronghold; but now with the war almost over Lincoln finally allowed Grant to get rid of him and replace him with a professional soldier, something that should've been done years before!
 
Since this was obviously produced near or even after the war's end, Terry was then-popular as the commander of the amphibious expedition that finally succeeded in capturing Fort Fisher and completing the Union blockade of the Atlantic coast. Political General Ben Butler had originally been in command until he blundered the first assault against the stronghold; but now with the war almost over Lincoln finally allowed Grant to get rid of him and replace him with a professional soldier, something that should've been done years before!
This isn't really fair to Spoons. At times, he could be a good general, usually before the fighting started. He relied too much on intelligence and would end up reacting once battle started. But he was a capable administrator. If he'd been completely useless he'd have been sacked much sooner.
 
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