dh76513 -> RE: What's your command style? (9/28/2006 4:40:14 PM)
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In all my efforts to be objective with the general officers on both sides (totaling 1008), below are those generals who I gave an “8” or “superb” as to Gil’s rating system: USA • George H. Thomas, MG, USA (William Sherman thought he was the best battlefield commander in the Union and defended Robert Anderson's choice of George Thomas to Abraham Lincoln) • John Buford, MG, USA • Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, BG, USA (Congressional Medal of Honor) • Philip Henry Sheridan, MG, USA CSA • Patrick R. Cleburne, MG, CSA • Nathan Bedford Forrest, LTG, CSA (Robert Lee thought Forrest the best battlefield commander in the Confederacy. It was William Sherman who coined the famous "That Devil Forrest" comment, as in "That devil Forrest is down making mischief about our gunboats." When asked after the war to identify the best general under his command, Robert E. Lee responded, " Nathan Bedford Forrest…a man I've never met.") • William J. Hardee, LTG, CSA • Albert Sidney Johnston, GEN, CSA (Jefferson Davis thought Johnson the best battlefield commander in the Confederacy) I found it very interesting that the USA and CSA were balanced in these final numbers with four on each side as this was sincerely unintentional. No doubt, I will likely have a great deal of criticism regarding my choices as this is certainly a passionate and controversial subject for most individuals who love American Civil War history.
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