alt.war.civil.usa

"Brad Meyer" wrote in message
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> On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:38:48 GMT, "Bert"
> wrote:
>
> >"Brad Meyer" wrote in message
> >news:ph9fg3tm75o4l8p28ufmqpjakg8djrhb2m@ ...
> >> They were not fighting the AoNVa. In fact they were fighting an army
> >> even more disorganized then themselves. They also had a boatload
> >> (several actually) of fresh troops behind them. And for all of that
> >> Bragg still got his army off in fairly good order and Grant faces the
> >> same sorts of criticism that Mac does for letting the enemy get away.
> >
> >I think you mean Beauregard, not Bragg. :-)
>
> Indeed!
>
> >And I think I must disagree -
> >Grant had fewer fresh troops than Mac . . .
>
> Grant had Buell's entire command and the dividion of Lew Wallace.
> Between 25,000 and 26,000 fresh troops. Further, Beauregard's army was
> not in a compact position defending a well chosen piece of ground, but
> rather strung out over the ground they had fought over on the 6th.
>
>
>

buell had buell's entire army. and grant didn't have the prestige to order
buell to do anything buell didn't want to do.
yes grant was senior, but not senior enough.