There isn't much to endear Lee to me (he must have been the David Watts of West Point -- listen to the Kinks tune on *Something Else,* and learn why King Mob liked to say "nice and smooth"), certainly not in comparison to Grant, who achieved a greatness in the Civil War no one would have expected who had known him as a clerk in Galena and went on to write a masterful *Personal Memoirs* just before his death. But Lincoln offered Lee the command of the Union Army before Virginia seceded, and I've always thought that at some point, as he realized that for all of his brilliant strategy ("stratergy"!), the Army of the Potomac was going to defeat him that he thought:
"That could have been my army."
It makes me want to shout fresh orders to A.P. Hill, it does.
The Gallant Hood of Texas played hell in Tennessee, and the Sparrow says salaam.
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Virgil, Quick, Come See, There Goes Robert E. Lee
Date: 2005-02-14 05:44 am (UTC)"That could have been my army."
It makes me want to shout fresh orders to A.P. Hill, it does.
The Gallant Hood of Texas played hell in Tennessee, and the Sparrow says salaam.