Brooks Simpson over at Civil Warriors has a great post.
Simpson wrote: One of my evolving credos is “Good information helps lead to good decisions.” Let’s put it this way: “historians” who can’t get their facts straight have no business posing as experts dispensing advice.
In response to a column by Jay Winik where Winik wrote, among other things:
In six weeks alone during the Wilderness Campaign, Lee inflicted some 52,000 casualties upon Grant’s men, nearly as many soldiers as America would lose in the entire Vietnam War. The single battle of Cold Harbor was an unmitigated bloodbath; 7,000 men slaughtered in under an hour, most of them in the first eight minutes, more than the Confederates lost during Gen. George Pickett’s infamous Gettysburg charge.
