The Miserable Creatant Gets Thrashed by the Gentleman

If there is one man who I despise in the Civil War, it is John Pope. He was not a man to be placed in the top spot of command: controlling an army. Pope got his position for the lamest excuse ever; for capturing a single island. Not a good enough excuse in my book. Pope had little military vision as he went into Second Bull Run. He would end up suffering 16,000 losses for his inability to plan. He refused to leave an adequeat force to defend his left flank, and went so far as to pull a division from that duty to help in his attack. Lee, on the other hand, knew what he was doing. Alot of his strategy was based on the fact that Pope was arrogant, and wouldn't bother with anything else once he saw his target. Pope was like a horse with blinders on. Well, for all my dislike, Pope was one of the first man in the Union Army who knew that it was aggression, not timidness, that would win the day. But, in the end, he suffered a humiliating setback.