alt.war.civil.usa

"Brad Meyer" wrote in message
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> On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:42:48 -0400, "Gregory E. Garland"
> wrote:
>
> >"Bruce Martin" wrote in message
> >news: $ @bgtnsc04-news.ops. ...
> >> In the grand scheme of things, who was a more innefectual. Bragg with
the
> >> Army of Tennessee, or McClellen with the AOP?
> >
> >Definitely McClellan; he had more opportunities with the ability to
> >achieve far greater results . . .
>
> OTOH he had a lot more interference from his political superiors.
> Neither got much support.
>
> FWIW, Bragg's work in the War Dept in '64 goes generally unnoted and
> was very important and pretty well done.
>


lil'mac earned his interference by his inability to move.

george patton had many little proverbs he lived by.
two come to mind with regard to lil'mac
"good enough is good enough"
"a good plan violently executed this week is better than a perfect plan next
week"



bragg earned his trust from davis early in the war when troops were needed
at a more threatened point and he sent all those requested with no
complaint..
davis appriciated that.


unfortunately the army of the tennessee was the caine, with bragg as
captain queeg and bishop polk was lt thomas keefer.
the mutual distrust poisoned everything and led to the failure to destroy
rosecrans.