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President Abraham Lincoln
Gen. S. Ulysses Grant
Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Gen. Philip Kearny
Col. Robert Gould Shaw
Gen. John Fulton Reynolds
Gen. Philip Sheridan
Gen. John F. Buford
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Gen. George E. Pickett
Gen. Braxton Bragg
Gen. J.E.B. Stuart
Gen. Jubal Anderson Early
Gen. Lewis Addison Armistead
Gen. Edward Porter Alexander
Gen. Stonewall Jackson
Gen. James Longstreet
President Jefferson Davis
None of the above:
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Which one?
"His motor's conked out!"
"What's the differance, they're all Nazis!"
"Luke, shut up!"
"Fear the hook!"
"Oh.....I wanna fly."
"You mean the kind that go under water and fly up the stairs?"
"What you doing? Oh Nooooo!"
Definitely Longstreet; I'm no Confederate, but I have a lot of respect for a man who saw the writing on the wall at Gettysburg, yet continued to fight for his country and his leader right up to the end.
Lincoln.
His insistence on easy terms for the confederates prevented the radicals from extracting too much revenge.
"Pilot to copilot..... what are those mountain goats doing up here in the clouds?"
I forgot Winnie Scott Hancock. Would have been better than Harriet Stowe.
I suppose the older Winfield Hancock was a great soldier too.
Last edited by Soundbreaker Welch?; 08-08-2007 at 07:48 PM.
"His motor's conked out!"
"What's the differance, they're all Nazis!"
"Luke, shut up!"
"Fear the hook!"
"Oh.....I wanna fly."
"You mean the kind that go under water and fly up the stairs?"
"What you doing? Oh Nooooo!"
Oliver Cromwell oops sorry wrong civil war
There's no Nathan Bedford Forrest up there! Gotta put him up there. He said stuff that people are still quoting today (no offense to Lincoln and Sherman, who are also quoted today).
"Get there firstest with the mostest."
"Hit 'em on the end"
"War means fighting, and fighting means killing."
"Boys, these people are talking about surrendering, and I am going out of this place before they do or bust hell wide open."
However, he had an association with the KKK that (and will continue to) haunts his legacy (also had a brutal incident at Fort Pillow attributed to him). Too bad. Guy started out as a private and ended up one of the highest ranking Generals in the Confederate Army. He was such a problem to Sherman that he once said of Forrest "‘must be hunted down and killed if it costs ten thousand lives and bankrupts the Federal treasury".
If not Forrest, I would go with Lincoln or Sherman.
Last edited by timshatz; 08-08-2007 at 11:47 AM.
Originally Posted by trackend
"Pilot to copilot..... what are those mountain goats doing up here in the clouds?"
Sherman - the man was a rolling WMD...
Well my favorites from that war were Lee, Longstreet and Stonewall Jackson. Since I can only vote for one I will vote for Lee.
Yeah he lost Gettysburg and should have listened to his other commanders but the way he was able to rally his troops behind him to me is very honorable and worthy of mention.
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Voted for "Stonewall" Jackson. His nickname says it all.
“Let's get Enterprise and Hornet turned into the wind."
Tim nailed it. If you are talking personal bravery and heroic action, Forrest is the one. Your list includes no one who actually is known to have gone eyeball to eyeball and belly to belly with the enemy. I believe Forrest actually is known to have killed 31 enemy soldiers and he was a brilliant leader also. In fact Braxton Bragg is lucky that Forrest did not kill him also.
You also forgot John Gordon who when asked if he could hold the sunken road at Sharpsburg in 1862 said, "We will hold here all the live long day or until the sun goes down" He was shot 5 times that day, the last time in one cheek and out the other and was drowning in his own blood until someone rolled him over so the blood ran out of his mouth. He lived to command the Army of N Virginia at the actual surrender when our boys stacked arms. You also left out John Hood who had his left arm shattered by shrapnel, and the arm was left useless in July 1863 at Gettysburg on the second day. In September of that same year he was commanding his division at Chickamauga and lost his right leg. There were no medals for bravery or valour given out during the war by the Confederate Army as all were expected to be valorous.
All right, all right! I knew was leaving out some heroes! But 21 names is a long list. But I admit, John Hood, Nathan Forrest, John Gordon, Winfield Scott Hancock, or Scott Hancock and Gordon Meade are big names to leave out......
Since Forest is the most popular missing, does anybody want to add him, if nobody else?
Last edited by Soundbreaker Welch?; 08-08-2007 at 07:54 PM.
"His motor's conked out!"
"What's the differance, they're all Nazis!"
"Luke, shut up!"
"Fear the hook!"
"Oh.....I wanna fly."
"You mean the kind that go under water and fly up the stairs?"
"What you doing? Oh Nooooo!"
What about in the Indian Wars, or Mexican American Wars?Your list includes no one who actually is known to have gone eyeball to eyeball and belly to belly with the enemy
"His motor's conked out!"
"What's the differance, they're all Nazis!"
"Luke, shut up!"
"Fear the hook!"
"Oh.....I wanna fly."
"You mean the kind that go under water and fly up the stairs?"
"What you doing? Oh Nooooo!"
Well, your thread was about worthiest heros in the Civil War. Of course, many of those people served in earlier wars. Winfield Scott was very active in the War of 1812 and many Civil War officers served in the Mexican War. Hood served in the 2nd US Cavalry in Texas(commanded by Robert E Lee) in the 1850s and while chasing Commanches in West Texas received arrows in his saddle and blew several braves away with a shotgun. That is eyeball to eyeball. Hood also, after Chickamauga, commanded the Army of Tennessee, not very successfully, with one arm shredded, one leg missing and dosed with laudanum.
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