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“Of the tens of thousands of men who died in combat in the war, possibly as many as half lost their lives in vain.…

— Stephen E. Ambrose

“From almost the moment the Civil War ended, Gettysburg has been widely viewed as one of the decisive turning points of the Civil War.…

— Charles River Editors

The US did not have any big supply of good generals in Civil War, and some it did have went with the rebels. If…

— William Lee Miller

“battles lost not alone because of superior numbers and failing ammunition and stores, but because of generals who should not have been generals, who…

— William Faulkner

“His military triumphs had been neither frequent nor epic in scale. He had lost more battles than he had won, had botched several through…

— Ron Chernow

“The American Civil War lays out the stark contrast: the greatest generals in war are often abundant failures during peacetime, and vice versa. McClellan…

— Nassir Ghaemi

I do not think you can fault Abraham Lincoln for picking generals that did not work out, because, as he said to John Hay…

— William Lee Miller

Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much…

— Rudy Giuliani

Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.

— Millicent Fawcett

In many ways, the North won the Civil War militarily and then lost the peace. You know, a group of writers, included many Confederate…

— Ron Chernow

“During the nineteenth century, corps commander was the highest level of command to still require skills of an operator for success. A corps commander…

— Robert Scales

The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on…

— Leo Tolstoy