No general worth his salt gives battle until he can see good chance of winning.

Except, praps, for Lee at Gettysburg...even most of his best officers, especially Gen. Longstreet, knew that ordering Pickett's Charge (an ill-fated assault on the Union center across over a mile of open field, with the Feds holding the high ground) was futile. But you could hardly say that Gen. Robert E. Lee wasn't worth his salt.


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