Checkmate, Lincolnites!

Did the CONFEDERACY Have BETTER GENERALS?!?!?! (1x7)

Air date: Jul 04, 2021

Episode 7 of Checkmate, Lincolnites! Debunking Lost Cause myths – as well as more benign common misconceptions – about the military leadership of the Civil War. Did the South really have all the best battlefield talent? Was the key to Union victory a simple strategy of overwhelming the Confederate army with numbers and resources? Who was better at their job, Ulysses S. Grant or Robert E. Lee?