It's ironic that the Union army is one of the few historical examples from the last 200 years of something resembling "human wave tactics" since Grant was apparently content to just toss soldiers into the meat grinder until it jammed.
Honestly, the civil war didn't have any really excellent generals. People jerk off Lee since he was one of the better ones, but 90% of civil war battles were just meat grinders without a major victor.
It's ironic that the Union army is one of the few historical examples from the last 200 years of something resembling "human wave tactics" since Grant was apparently content to just toss soldiers into the meat grinder until it jammed.
Honestly, the civil war didn't have any really excellent generals. People jerk off Lee since he was one of the better ones, but 90% of civil war battles were just meat grinders without a major victor.