Why Does the Media Make Our Generals Into Heroes When the Wars They Commanded Are Failures?

[pangaia]

34. I agree.

I don't think the 'union' could have survived either.
The balance between the 'agrarian' and the' industrial', if I can put it so simply..

I am certainly no expert, but Lincoln was, as I understand it, between a rock and a hard place. And once the fighting started there was always the possibility that if the British felt the CSA actually had a chance of winning, which I still think they certainly did, they would support them...cotton, etc. And Davis and Lee knew it.

And I think it came close as Lincoln ran through so many mediocre Generals-
McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, even Meade. (Whom did I leave out?) Even though Gettysburg was the beginning of the end for the South, it wasn't until Lincoln finally got to Grant that it was a done deal.
So, yes if any war is necessary, I would say that was one.