Jackson & Grant

bad comparison imo, Jackson never led the amount of troops Grant did although he was probably the best corps commander from either side. The Grant-Lee comparison is far better and the typical talking point is Lee had better tactics and Grant had better strategy. Of course that's a massive oversimplification and somewhat boring.

>good biographies on these two you'd recommend
Mcpherson is the standard but I find his biases somewhat obnoxious. Gallagher is probably the best current military historian.

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>>3384359

Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by S. C. Gwynne

>>3386488

This

>>3386488

This x100

Literally every thing you would ever want and need to know about Tom Jackson

Incredibly easy read as well.

>>3384359
Jackson was a hillnigger whose only accomplishment was he ran around in an unmapped valley where he and his men were the only ones who knew the terrain.
Grant won the Western campaign which decided the war then went East and destroyed Lee's army in a couple of months.

>>3384752
>Grant had better strategy
no, Grant had superior numbers and industrial capability and the willingness to send his men into the meat grinder to maximize these advantages.

Lee did more with less.

>>3386488
Thanks for the recommend, lucky my university library has it.

>>3384752
I thought this too, but this is unfortunately what the assignment specifies.