The Best American General?

[W.G.Ewald]

The Best American General? - By Michael Walsh - The Corner - National Review Online

Adopting the outlines of Scott's strategy, Grant executed brilliantly, defeating the South along the Mississippi, then turning Sherman and Sheridan loose in the interior, making Appomattox inevitable. With Grant, there was no exit strategy, no accommodation, no negotiation, and no bipartisanship. Just total victory and unconditional surrender.

 

[Ray]

Patton without doubt.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Patton without doubt.

Comparing leaders from different centuries probably is pointless. For 20th, Gavin would be another contender.

James M. Gavin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Omar Bradley was called "the soldiers general."

Omar Bradley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[civfanatic]

William Tecumseh Sherman, the first modern general.

 

[LETHALFORCE]

After George Washington I will vote for Patton. George Washington
for taking farmers and organizing and defeating the greatest military
empire during his time to form an independent nation.

 

[Ray]

Comparing leaders from different centuries probably is pointless. For 20th, Gavin would be another contender.

James M. Gavin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Omar Bradley was called "the soldiers general."

Omar Bradley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I am looking at the issue from the military history standpoint.

He was a soldier and he loved warfare.

He served under Bradley who was his junior.

He was prevented to forge ahead by not supplying him fuel, just to ensure that plodder Montgomery doesn't appear a goof.

When he was told to slow down because his flanks were being exposed, he said, Let the Germans worry about their flanks.

The man had negatives, but he was a fearless person who was a born soldier!

 

[pankaj nema]

For me it is Eisen hower and Mac Arthur

Eisen hower not only was a succesful military man he went on to become a successful president
from 1953 to 1961

That shows the ALL round calibre of the man

And Mac Arthur not on defeated Japan but Converted it into a loving ALLY

Isnt that a statesman like quality

 

[W.G.Ewald]

No American general is revered in the South as much as Robert E. Lee.

Robert E. Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

When Virginia declared its secession from the Union in April 1861, Lee chose to follow his home state, despite his personal desire for the Union to stay intact and despite the fact that President Abraham Lincoln had offered Lee command of the Union Army.[1] During the Civil War, Lee originally served as a senior military adviser to President Jefferson Davis. He soon emerged as a shrewd tactician and battlefield commander, winning numerous battles against larger Union armies. His abilities as a tactician have been praised by many military historians.[2][3] His strategic vision was more doubtful, and both of his invasions of the North ended in defeat.[4][5][6] Union General Ulysses S. Grant's campaigns bore down on Lee in 1864 and 1865, and despite inflicting heavy casualties, Lee was unable to force back Grant. Lee would ultimately surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. By this time, Lee had been promoted to the commanding officer of all Confederate forces; the remaining armies soon capitulated after Lee's surrender. Lee rejected the starting of a guerrilla campaign against the North and called for reconciliation between the North and South.

Another Southern hero was Thomas Jackson.

Stonewall Jackson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson[1] (January 21, 1824[2] – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee.[3] His military career includes the Valley Campaign of 1862 and his service as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee. Confederate pickets accidentally shot him at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863; the general survived with the loss of an arm to amputation. However, he died of complications from pneumonia eight days later. His death was a severe setback for the Confederacy, affecting not only its military prospects, but also the morale of its army and of the general public.

The pickets who accidentally shot Jackson were from North Carolina.