#43: Civil War Questions

Why is it that General Ulysses S. Grant is considered a 'butcher' because of the way he used up his men at the Battle of Cold Harbor in 1864 where something like 7,000 died in an hour and General Robert E. Lee is not considered a butcher during the Seven Days' Battles when he used up about 79% of his army keeping the Yankees away from Richmond?

Why does General Stonewall Jackson get the reputation as a 'blue eyed killer' in most histories but it's not mentioned that he probably caught the cold that led to pneumonia that killed him after he was wounded at Chancellorsville in 1863 because he covered his aide, Sandy Pendleton, with his own cloak on a rainy night before the battle?

Why do historians remember that Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was a wicked fighter and eventually was the first head of the Ku Klux Klan, but few tell that his unofficial chaplain throughout the war was a Negro, that he freed his slaves during the War when he saw the South's loss was inevitable, and that he had an Evangelical conversion experience after the war, partially brought on by the prayers of his wife and mother-in-law on his behalf for his whole life?

Why is it that the Great Confederate Revivals are written about by historians frequently but the Union ones in which more soldiers were saved are not?

Why is the institution of American slavery considered so heinous and all the slavery down through the ages that built the marvels of the ancient world is not? What makes whites enslaving blacks so much worse than the reds enslaving reds in America, the blacks enslaving blacks in Africa and America, and the yellows enslaving anyone they could throughout Asia, not to mention whites enslaving other whites down through history?

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Sources: 408 books, 363 articles as I wrote God Caused the Civil War