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Who was the Union general who was considered a butcher and heavy drinker?
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∙ 13y ago
Sounds like U.S. Grant.
A heavy drinker certainly.
Butcher - yes, he appeared to be blase about his losses, but it was simply a war of attrition, and he knew the Confederates would run out of men first.
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