The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-03-29
I GEN N R & LEE.
aQs '.slel l'If oral E2osset'a . Estitnate tf,ho
Great Commander.
Sti = l!l s. . pEfEATED GEN. oRAM r
The Great Confederate Lende,
"A erely Played With osns
sS 5ss3 M 6 cleIlan, Burnside.
Pope and Hos kar.

y H. AODab ~ ItOsSoF, OF %huROy,
Ss y A lb9sgmarlo 90, Va, has been engaged
in writing and publishing sories of
9 papors on the war botwecn the States.
aud his concluding article is as fol-
EEs8s lows: Isl t3 Il .s
n Tho wisdom Of Gonoral Leo $ in
s3s &; 3syasion If Pennsy lvania in 1863 has
q often boon questioned by military mon
IA IIssss well 8as statesmen, but when you
4 remember that at that time Grant held
&ssSG General Pomborton by the throat at
Vickeburg, and the hope of the ulti-
mate 5sau coets Of tho Southern Confed
BsgsS Seraoy was faint and fiokcripg, you will
q gtee hat tho situation called for des
4 pSrate action.
Genorals Lee Fad gained an eaey
over General Hooker at Chan
I; oell0rtville nsterly May, and having a
love stimate of his military ability, he
b felt hat a victory ovor him north Of tho
3t$ / Potonlao was not beyond tho bound Of
ressQnablo hope, or even probability,
y be disrcgardod.
leo had lost his lioutenant. Stone
S3s5s wall jackson, and while Longs,reot
Ss5 was with him, neither Ewoll nor Hill,
who had recently boen promoted from
ss snsjoI to lioutensnt general, lad over
a corps in battle, and
Nhilos leo must have felt some anxiety,
fsnot Emisgivings concerning them, he
had confidence IN his superb army and
h ee0lyed to take tho move, not as Ma.
SSatSy III, "a II, a va bod ~, Moooo,, 1910
al but 5asSss Soipio (AfrioanuO went to Usr.
'SSs sS hS Hold on Virginia Of the invading
3Sf army, 4 and at tho eamo timo strike q
slbl oWs IN bioh would awaken an eoho to
be heard In Europe and through diplo
y \ 4 i, end tho war in favor Of tho
/ SSodthoia Uonfoderaoy.
Il sSanefal Lee planned to give battle
anea2 the srap GO Of South Mountain
l'fr} NJ SgSooald ,ao that insthe ovont Of dis.
gssaa&wa The csso, The scould drop
dhsig tho snartowj mountain.
bioRSho s could IS / 5rasist1 81 ! su tho,
gsfsI " II, Iparsuit. g D,
os sbuyg, as d en: {
,tongss9 sGf claims ho advised him.
Meade bad been forced by q flank
Lee, 1, back .ona Washington,
ss6dsssa battlo fought and Loo defeated
SSss Kashingt on, his army would
l1Nb tloas Lave been destroyed before
AS could have reached safe refuge in
stlsS lountainB or reorossed tho Poto-
sAaAS at tho nearest ford, which was
J N LOT tho mountain. Thsrcforo, Leo
i I'D u, & satod wisely in fighting whore ho did,
N n y the only mistakes he made were
y IL fs0tical "a not strategic, as shown in my
previous letter
;gsss y Had Goneral Lee died at Gettysburg
lla,8would not have ranked in history
Yaga great general. His victories over
!, Sln llflol nlol ellan, Pope, Burnside and Hooker
IN Wollkd have boen asoribed to tho genius
AK NJ sonowall jackson, who participated
oriously in all Of them, for wo oil
sehns ,mber that in tho winter Of 1861 2
ven oral Lee did not acquit himself
btsssi s. credit in his campaign against
Stosecrsns in West Virginia, and tho
gssailure st Gettysburg with tho danger.
oushalt o. Falling Water and Williams.
port, waiting for a frcshet to run out
Ssss0f tho Potomac so that he might pass
3f 3s his army over it, occasioDcd very un.
l,lSs;SfeY0rable comment from many Of our
/ E9 highest officors.
Genera! Leo was doubtless great
SSsgenoral, but his great military talont
ltEfdia not ehine out fully in all its radi-
aplendor until he met General u
stg. Grant in tho Wilderness in tho
ing of 1864
General Leo had merely played with
Mcclellan, Pope, Burnside and Hook or
taking great liberty with thom and
Y violating every maxim Of war in his
Ish anapaigns against them suoh, for in.
IS tallcc, as going off after Popo and loav.
ssssS III = Olellan and his fine army on tho
i a aIaes within days march Of Rioh-
AnI6nd and in leaving Hooker in juno,
4 l8G8 with an army double his own in
4 Ygntabor at fredericksburg, and march
4 ying aYound him to Culpepcr- liberties
4 hioh3 poor Hood mistook for strategy,
'aadS in trying to initiate thom loft tho
4 road open to Sherman, which no &c
A ieepted, and marched upon Atlanta and
the sea, while he, poor fellow, was do
v VIZ Gated at Franklin, Tenn, and had to
!, y ,asj65STSlieved Of his command by General
3 3 Zoe Johnston.
Il Lee does not appear to have gotten
strictly down to business until no was
,ifGonfrontsd by Grant in tho Wilderness
A ia tho spring of 1864
4 }}aa General Grant was greatly surprised
4 whom General Lee permitted him, un-
4 4 ssneleated, to oross the Rspidan on the
J J FfthF0f3 May, 1864, with an army Of 164,.
90 mon and train Of 4, 900 wagons.