Ottoathome | 29 Aug 2016 11:40 a.m. PST |
NOTE!!!! I SAID FAVORITE, not the best. Which Union General do you like to read about the most and is the most entertaining. For me it's Ben Butler. Love him. Not so good on the battlefield, but excellent at managing civil military relations, and perhaps the ONLY general on either side who understood the profound political implications of the war. |
mwindsorfw | 29 Aug 2016 11:45 a.m. PST |
Chamberlain. Every time people start into that "People who can do, people who can't teach" crap, I point to the portrait of Chamberlain on my wall and tell them that he took a sabbatical from his college professorship to go serve in the Union army. |
Yellow Admiral | 29 Aug 2016 11:53 a.m. PST |
For me, it's a tie between all of them. I just enjoy reading about them, even the most despicable characters I love to hate. The Civil War was a very colorful period behind the drab curtain of blue, gray, and brown. - Ix |
cavcrazy | 29 Aug 2016 11:54 a.m. PST |
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Generalstoner49 | 29 Aug 2016 11:55 a.m. PST |
John Gibbon. Born in Philadelphia which is where I am from. Commanded the Iron brigade. A hard fighting general. |
Norman D Landings | 29 Aug 2016 11:55 a.m. PST |
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Rapier Miniatures | 29 Aug 2016 11:58 a.m. PST |
Winfield Scott Hancock and Samuel Ryan Curtis |
79thPA | 29 Aug 2016 12:10 p.m. PST |
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Toronto48 | 29 Aug 2016 12:17 p.m. PST |
Ulysses S Grant got on with the job despite personal problems and critics |
138SquadronRAF | 29 Aug 2016 12:23 p.m. PST |
It ought to be James Shields since I married one of his descendants. A man much closer to my heart is Uncle Billy Sherman, who treated the South the way I would have. Honourable mention to Phil Sheridan for the same reason and Ben Butler because of the way the South hates him. |
Frederick | 29 Aug 2016 12:25 p.m. PST |
For the North, George "Slowtrot" Thomas – steadfast, loyal and true For the South, a tie between Stonewall Jackson and Patrick Cleburne |
torokchar | 29 Aug 2016 12:49 p.m. PST |
Meade – he defeated Lee in every battle they faced each other! |
Martian Root Canal | 29 Aug 2016 12:49 p.m. PST |
Sheridan, Sherman and Scott. General Scott's anaconda strategy worked. |
Bill N | 29 Aug 2016 1:01 p.m. PST |
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Fat Wally | 29 Aug 2016 1:10 p.m. PST |
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Brechtel198 | 29 Aug 2016 1:14 p.m. PST |
Henry Jackson Hunt, arguably the best artillery commander the United States has ever produced. |
Der Alte Fritz | 29 Aug 2016 1:23 p.m. PST |
Grant, because he never gave up or got demoralized when the battle was turning against him (e.g. Shiloh and The Wilderness-Spotsylvania CH). Sherman: "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant: "Yes, lick "em tomorrow, though,". |
Ceterman | 29 Aug 2016 1:32 p.m. PST |
Brigadier General Chamberlain or Colonel Shaw. |
Red Jacket | 29 Aug 2016 1:46 p.m. PST |
George Thomas because he seems to have been forgotten until recently. Not only my favorite but my vote for best – he may have been slow but he got the job done. |
Rich Bliss | 29 Aug 2016 2:00 p.m. PST |
Nathaniel Lyon What could have been. |
The Gray Ghost | 29 Aug 2016 2:08 p.m. PST |
It's hard to choose they are so many favorites. |
Winston Smith | 29 Aug 2016 2:09 p.m. PST |
Sherman and Grant. "He stood by me when I was crazy, and I'll stick by him when he's drunk." |
Patrick Sexton | 29 Aug 2016 2:12 p.m. PST |
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Winston Smith | 29 Aug 2016 2:14 p.m. PST |
Otto. Ben Butler issued Genersl Order 28, which authorized soldiers who thought the Ladies of New Orleans were being mean to them to treat them as "a woman of the town plying her avocation." That's your idea of excellent "civil military" relations? |
Trajanus | 29 Aug 2016 2:31 p.m. PST |
Hancock without a doubt. Shovelled crap so the rest didn't have to! |
warwell | 29 Aug 2016 2:35 p.m. PST |
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Pictors Studio | 29 Aug 2016 2:55 p.m. PST |
Sherman and Thomas but I like Grant a lot too. Sherman understood warfare and how to win it. He wasn't bounded by stupid constraints of convention. He knew that the only moral way to fight a war was to destroy and kill as much and as quickly as possible and in the end you will have less overall bloodshed. |
John Thomas8 | 29 Aug 2016 3:08 p.m. PST |
John Buford. As good a cavalry commander as Stuart, just never got the chance to prove it. |
Old Pete | 29 Aug 2016 3:25 p.m. PST |
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epturner | 29 Aug 2016 3:28 p.m. PST |
Regis de Trobriand comes to mind. I like his memoirs/letters to his daughter. Sam Crawford, another Pennsylvania product. John Turchin, the Russian immigrant. Jeff Davis, just because of his name. There's a few out there I find interesting. Eric |
Old Paul | 29 Aug 2016 3:44 p.m. PST |
Never made general officially (I think he was brevetted), even though he commanded a brigade--John Wilder. |
coopman | 29 Aug 2016 3:58 p.m. PST |
US Grant, with George Thomas being a close second. My fav. Confederate general was McClellan. |
SgtPain | 29 Aug 2016 4:44 p.m. PST |
Grant(for favorite General) follow by Sherman(Favorite supporting General), and the Life time achievement award to General Winfield Scott for service in the war of 1812, Mex-american war, and civil War. |
CORebel | 29 Aug 2016 4:50 p.m. PST |
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BW1959 | 29 Aug 2016 5:19 p.m. PST |
Another vote for George Thomas, a few of my ancestors fought under him in the war. |
John Leahy | 29 Aug 2016 5:29 p.m. PST |
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nevinsrip | 29 Aug 2016 5:36 p.m. PST |
Buford who saved the day at Gettsyburg right off the bat. and Hancock, the magnificent. |
Wackmole9 | 29 Aug 2016 5:51 p.m. PST |
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pmwalt | 29 Aug 2016 6:04 p.m. PST |
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USAFpilot | 29 Aug 2016 6:11 p.m. PST |
Grant, who at the start of the war was no longer even in the army. He was literally a nobody. Rose rapidly through the ranks upon his reentry into the army due to his success on the battlefield. A doer not a talker. |
jdpintex | 29 Aug 2016 6:16 p.m. PST |
Reynolds for being such a good target. |
McKinstry | 29 Aug 2016 6:18 p.m. PST |
Sherman. A man who understood his times. |
Lascaris | 29 Aug 2016 7:13 p.m. PST |
2nd vote for Fitz John Porter |
gaiusrabirius | 29 Aug 2016 8:03 p.m. PST |
Gouverneur Kemble Warren. |
DisasterWargamer | 29 Aug 2016 8:14 p.m. PST |
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Old Contemptibles | 29 Aug 2016 10:45 p.m. PST |
1. Grant 2. Chamberlain 3. Reynolds 4. Hancock Fitz John Porter is one of the worst. If for nothing else than Antietam. "The last reserve of the Army of the Republic" anyone else but Little Mac would had relieved him of command. |
Weasel | 29 Aug 2016 11:17 p.m. PST |
Sherman because he may have been the first "modern" general. I'll give a kudos to "little mac". Sure, he may have been a bad commander but he was a fantastic organizer. Built good armies for others to lead. |
Old Contemptibles | 30 Aug 2016 12:01 a.m. PST |
Yep, must have a shout out to Buford. |
Dances with Clydesdales | 30 Aug 2016 4:30 a.m. PST |
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ACWBill | 30 Aug 2016 5:40 a.m. PST |
John Reynolds or Backjack Logan. |