Benjamin F. Cheatham

[rickd79]

Benjamin F. Cheatham:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_F._Cheatham


160 CSA Benjamin F. Cheatham ldr_CSA_Cheatham2 NULL NULL NULL NULL 7 5 2 17 General 1 NULL 4 3 3
188 CSA Benjamin F. Cheatham ldr_CSA_Cheatham NULL NULL NULL NULL 2 2 1 15 General 1 NULL 4 3 3

A bit of an up and down career....
Shiloh - Tough to criticize one way or the other here, considering nobody really knew what they were doing at this point in the war.
Perryville - Cheatham's division has a good day.. see this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Perryville
Stone's River - Not Cheatham's best day...he orders uncoordinated assaults...witnesses claim he's drunk.
Chickamauga - Tough to criticize one way or the other...this battle was a confused mess of uncoordinated attacks and misinterpreted orders.
Missionary Ridge - The whole army is steamrolled...I don't think Cheatham gets much of the blame here.
Kennesaw Mountain - Cheatham is good on the defensive here.
Atlanta Battles - Cheatham is pretty solid here
Franklin/Nashville - Cheatham drops the ball at Spring Hill and Schofield slips away.

I don't have much of a problem with the ratings, although I think he deserves to be dropped a bit in the "strategic" department.
Maybe 3/3/3 (he seems to have had some successes both offensively and defensively, so I'm OK with the 3's there, but 2's would also seem appropriate)
Any thoughts?

[Chris0827]

Hood blamed him for Spring Hill but Hood blamed everything that went wrong on someone else. A court cleared him of all charges.I'm not saying he was blameless but Hood deserved most of the blame. He wasn't at Chattanooga. How about 4|3|3 as a division commander and 3|2|3 as a corps commander?

[Korrigan]

160 CSA Benjamin F. Cheatham ldr_CSA_Cheatham2 NULL NULL NULL NULL 7 5 2 17 General 1 NULL 3 3 3
188 CSA Benjamin F. Cheatham ldr_CSA_Cheatham NULL NULL NULL NULL 2 2 1 15 General 1 NULL 3 3 3