Billy1121 t1_iy99qyo wrote
Reply to comment by Yancy_Farnesworth in TIL that Ulysses Grant was made commander of all Union armies at 41 and President at 46 by IllustriousAct28
He might have a few Cold Harbor-sized losses, but Grant may have been one of the few generals with a chance of adapting to the machinegun and mechanized warfare.
Though he liked horses a lot, maybe he would be too attached to cavalry
BanjoB0y t1_iy9n1hg wrote
Hopefully he'd have seen mechanization as "Oh great, now no horses have to die"
It would have been interesting to see how a protege of his might have used horses in WW1 alongside mechanized tanks
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