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From: video@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Henry J. Cobb)
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Subject: Grant the Butcher
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Date: 24 May 91 14:14:03 GMT
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From: video@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Henry J. Cobb)


>	[Meatgrinder campaigns always deserve lambasting.
>	 A general who has no better use for good men than turning
>	 them into sausage deserves no praise, successful or not.
>	 --CDR]

	Grant's 'directness' was a reaction to greater southern mobility.
(The south had less of a supply train to tie themselves down with. :)

	But his strategy was mostly indirect, a narrow outflanking of
cities with few direct assaults.

	He learned the folly of direct assault against a prepared defense,
several times.

-- 
Henry J. Cobb	video@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu  SFB Tyrant
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