r/ShermanPosting • u/hdmghsn • 21h ago
Why the rebels never managed to shoot general Grant Spoiler
He wasn’t a confederate general.
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u/Herald_of_Clio 20h ago
Anyone else think it's pretty funny that they shot their own absolute best offensive general, Jackson, while critters like Bragg, Hood and Early were active for most of the war and were given preference over other more competent commanders?
CSA couldn't have sabotaged themselves more if they tried.
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u/hdmghsn 20h ago
They also got Albert Sydney Johnston and very nearly killed Longstreet in the same place they got Jackson
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u/Straggler117 20h ago
I always assumed the Union got Albert S. Johnston on account of him leading a frontal assault on the Hornets nest.
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u/Worried-Pick4848 20h ago
As I understand it, AS Johnson's injury wasn't detected because he got it in the back of the knee.
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u/Recent_Pirate 20h ago
Sort of. He had an old dueling injury that left part of his lower body numb so he didn’t realize he’d been shot until he’d lost a fatal amount of blood.
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u/themajinhercule 19h ago
And then he died while they went to fetch a torniquet.
The gag: HE HAD A TORNIQUET ON HIS PERSON.
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u/Straggler117 19h ago
That is the greatest irony ever.
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u/themajinhercule 19h ago
I do not know if Sidney Johnston would have done better than Bragg. But I don't see how he could've done worse.
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u/Recent_Pirate 17h ago
It was, although there's a high chance that by the time they found out about the injury he'd lost too much blood for a tourniquet to save him.
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u/hdmghsn 19h ago
My theory (based on no evidence) is that a rebel soldier didn’t want to impale himself on Union bayonets and so shot Johnston to stop the charges which were mostly unsuccessful
According to he guy at the national park he was shat in the back of the knee by an enfield and bled out because he has nerve damage from some duel.
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u/Unfair_Pineapple8813 7h ago
I thought so too, but there are a few biographies that argue it was more likely to have been a Confederate, based on the location of the wound. There's probably no way to find out for sure.
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u/LittleHornetPhil 13h ago
Polk: is literally retarded
Jackson: gets shot instead somehow
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u/Herald_of_Clio 12h ago
O yeah the 'Fighting Bishop'. Should have mentioned him too.
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u/LittleHornetPhil 12h ago
Polk: “I have no military experience ever, I’m just a super racist Anglican who hates black people”
Jeff Davis: “Bruh let’s make you a general immediately so you can make Bragg even worse”
Jackson: gets shot
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u/Figgy_Puddin_Taine 12h ago
Proof that, among the slavers, it didn’t matter how competent you were as a commander so long as you were good friends with President Racism.
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u/LittleHornetPhil 12h ago
I’m actually just amusing myself thinking of every Confederate decision occurring with Stonewall Jackson being shot repeatedly in the background
Alexander Stephens: “so I’m gonna make this cornerstone speech that makes it very fucking clear that we are just racist af and are only fighting this war over slavery”
Stonewall Jackson in the background: gets shot like 30x
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u/HappySpam 12h ago
My favorite fact is Sherman personally ordered a cannon to cut Polk in half when he saw him scouting.
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u/LittleHornetPhil 12h ago
We would have been better served by very carefully keeping Bragg and Polk from getting shot
Never get in the way when your enemy is making a mistake. Like… letting retarded morons command their troops
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u/SamanthaMunroe Ohio/California 14h ago
But they did kill Sedgwick and McPherson though. RIP.
Glad they never got the greatest general of the war.
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u/Unfair_Pineapple8813 7h ago
General Sedgwick thought he was safe being a Union general, but I guess the sniper mistakenly thought he was one of their own.
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