Robert E Lee The Great Emancipator

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(06-07-2013 03:00 PM)J. Beckert Wrote:  He was probably thinking along the same lines as Sherman. "War is Hell" . I've heard there was a Civil War General who, after the war, always ordered his meat well done as he couldn't stand the sight of blood on his plate. Is that true?

That would be General Ulysses Grant. He couldn't stand the sight of blood, so his steaks were always 'well done'.
And as I understand it, Grant had that aversion well before the War.