From: Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[email protected]>
I disagree. Some 13,000 Americans died in the Mexican-American conflict
and many of the best generals in the Civil War cut their teeth in that
conflict, Lee, Grant and Jackson among them. Technologies and tactics
used in the Civil War were perfected in Mexico.
And every last one of them except Grant were whistling Dixie. I wonder if
the Southern culture of warlike honor encouraged them and the Northern
culture somehow discouraged them?
Lincoln's problem wasn't that there werenât any good generals, It was
that most of them were on the wrong side.
--
Doug
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