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This 6 page paper compares the tactics and
strategies of Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. Bibliography lists 5
sources. (includes footnotes).
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_KTgrtlee.doc
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The tactics and strategies that were used in the war are still under debate as well. There are historians who believe that both General Robert E. Lee and Ulysses
S. Grant were among the greatest of the military tacticians of their age. However, there are others who would contend that Lee led the Southern forces inexplicably into ill
planned battle after battle. Lee relied on offensive tactics while Grant maintained leadership with a sense of aggression that not only countered Lees tactics but also accomplished what Lee
feared most: the loss of morale among the troops and a sense of hopelessness among the civilians. Robert E. Lee has wrongfully been "cast as a man who
thought of the struggle in terms of protecting his own state rather advancing the cause of the entire Confederacy, forged a personal bond with his soldiers reminiscent of feudal relationships,
focused on winning set-piece battles without taking in the broader political and social landscape of a modern war, and failed to understood the implications of new weaponry such as the
rifle-musket. Historians and other writers have employed an array of images that tie Lee to a knightly tradition and an agrarian age, presenting him as a localist for whom kinship
and ancestral place meant everything"1. This limited view of Lees motivation leads to the assumption that Lee was not fully committed to the battle for independence of the Confederacy.
The Lee that is portrayed in history books is limited by an old fashioned view of war. It sets him in complete opposition to Ulysses S. Grant
and William Tecumseh Sherman who are portrayed as forward-looking and willing to embrace the modern age in their outlook on war. Lee is portrayed as not being attuned to
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