 John the OFM  | 20 Feb 2026 5:37 p.m. PST |
Originally lost in a Time Warp…
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This is in answer to a current discussion that insists Hood deserves the honor. This being TMP, disagreement ensued.
Let's start off with Hood, then, and counter with Butler.
Everyone of them is dead by now, so nobody can sue you for slander.
Give your reasons. Or, not. Up to you. When you go to vote, nobody demands you justify yourself.
Hood Butler Not a contest for who has the worst mustache or beard. That's a whole different Poll. |
| robert piepenbrink | 20 Feb 2026 5:59 p.m. PST |
Not again. Everyone wants to trash the famous but ultimately unsuccessful--who were probably better than lots of ACW generals we've never heard of. If the poll runs despite my carping, put me down for Robert H. Milroy. Major General of Volunteers, US Army. |
| glengarry6 | 20 Feb 2026 6:02 p.m. PST |
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| John the OFM | 20 Feb 2026 6:26 p.m. PST |
"Not again"?
That wasn't a genuine by God binding on all historians TMP Poll.
This will be. |
 miniMo | 20 Feb 2026 6:48 p.m. PST |
Again with the negative waves. Sigh. |
| Dave Woodchuck | 20 Feb 2026 7:16 p.m. PST |
Ruggles was pretty garbage as a general, and was eventually shifted to administrative duties by the Confederacy. And the CSA was notorious for letting bad commanders stay in command. How bad do you have to be to get sidelined by them? |
 ColCampbell | 20 Feb 2026 8:25 p.m. PST |
My choices would be, in no particular order, Hood, Butler, Milroy, Bragg. off the top of my head. Jim |
| TimePortal | 20 Feb 2026 9:27 p.m. PST |
Never heard of Butler until TMP
My vote Hood |
| T Corret | 20 Feb 2026 9:52 p.m. PST |
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 gamertom | 20 Feb 2026 11:58 p.m. PST |
George B. Crittenden, CSA. |
 Old Contemptible | 21 Feb 2026 1:18 a.m. PST |
Bragg, CSA Only because Hood was a good brigade and division commander. Terrible army commander. |
| Old Contemptible | 21 Feb 2026 1:22 a.m. PST |
Everyone trashes the CSA generals because the ones in the western theater were so bad. The list of good CS army commanders is a short one R.E. Lee. The ones that left the ANV to go west did not fair well, two that come to mind are Hood and Longstreet. Lee made mediocre generals look that much better and once they get an independent command not so much. |
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