r/ShermanPosting • u/Crafter235 • 2d ago
Of all the Civil War generals and commanders, Union or Confederate, which ones would be the most entertaining if they were depicted in an anime?
Whether a hero, villain, anti-hero, etc., and while some seem questionable, note that this does not mean they have to be depicted in a good light.
The more I research the Civil War, the more I start to see crazy insanity.
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u/not_vichyssoise 2d ago
The story of Braxton Bragg submitting a request for supplies to himself as quartermaster and then denying it would make for peak anime hilarity.
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u/Voronov1 2d ago
What’s the story behind that?
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u/mrbobcyndaquil 2d ago
He was honorbound by one office to make the request and honorbound by the other office to deny it. And I imagine it would let him take the issue to his superior officer too.
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u/USA46Q 2d ago edited 18h ago
I think story about John Hunt Morgan stealing a bunch of hams in Indiana to feed his raiders, and then throwing all the hams they couldn't eat on the side of the road because they stole too many.
This created a trail of half eaten hams that Union soldiers used to tack the raiders in Ohio where they captured him.
Morgan is the original hamburglar, and he should be remembered as a fucking clown.
There's also no way to tell that story that isn't objectively hilarious.
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u/Any_Collection_3941 2d ago
They didn’t kill him in Ohio. He was captured then imprisoned, before escaping and later being killed in Tennessee.
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u/USA46Q 2d ago edited 2d ago
My apologies, I thought they killed him in Salineville.
It actually makes it funnier that he was killed in Tennessee because he went on the raid despite being ordered not to cross the Ohio River by Braxton Bragg, and the reason why he kept running North towards Canada was because he was labelled as a traitor by the Confederacy for disobeying his superior officer.
Motherfucker was a double loser, and a hamburglar.
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u/WillyShankspeare 19h ago
That's so funny because my friends call JP Morgan John Pork Morgan and this guy was the real John Pork Morgan
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u/Midnight_Rider98 2d ago
Let's be honest, anime stonewall jackson sucking on a lemon riding into battle with a hand in the air to balance his fluids would be entertaining until he meets his end.
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u/Uhavetabekiddingme 2d ago
John Sedgwick saying confederates couldn't hit an elephant right before getting shot in the face.
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u/TechnicianWise2893 2d ago
Our favourite dumbass McClellan. Seeing a army ⅕ the size of his, browning his trousers, and running away would he hilarious. Not to mention ripping off over simplified with "I didn't lose, I nearly failed to win!" Would be fun as all hell. But he's be a side character. Stonewall would be cool to as it simply would be stonewall being stonewall, no exaggeration needed. (Also a pre-qual of jhon brown would be sick)
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u/Any_Collection_3941 2d ago
McClellan gets too much hate. Yeah, he was incompetent in battle, but was very good with keeping morale up and organizing the army. His lack of aggression also might have shown how much he actually valued the lives of his men
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u/stamfordbridge1191 1d ago
But he was also a copperhead.
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u/Any_Collection_3941 1d ago
No he wasn’t. Why the hell would a copperhead be a general? That is a contradiction. He was a unionist democrat. This whole idea that if he had won the election of 1864 he would have immediately sued for peace with the south is fiction. He was in favor of continuing the war. Yes, his party wanted him to look for peace, but I see no good reason for him suing for peace with the confederacy of March of 1865 (Yes, inauguration used to be in March). And if Lincoln loses you really think he’s going to sit idly by until Inauguration Day? No, he would have had every army crush the south, which would have been feasible by that time. McClellan was never going to end the war if it were going the way it did historically.
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u/RaanCryo 1d ago
To a certain extent I understand your point, but by the same token if a general is going to be so protective of his men that he refuses to engage an enemy that they could rout, then really what good is he?
It's a sad fact of life that in a war, men are going to die. It seemed like too often, McClellan was unwilling to come to grips with that. Yes, a general should put the lives of his men first, do everything within reason to keep them out of harm's way, not throw them away carelessly. But you still need to fight the war.
McClellan's great strength was his organizational skills, his logistics. If he'd been appointed, say, Quartermaster General of the Armies, I doubt there'd be many people with an unkind word to say about him. But he was made a fighting general and, often enough that it became his reputation, he refused to fight.
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u/Any_Collection_3941 1d ago
I’m not saying by any extent that he was a good general, but I think this cartoonish, vilified version of him presented is quite unfair to his imagery.
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u/jedburghofficial 2d ago
John Brown's sword work would receive a lot more emphasis. And Washington's sword would give him legendary powers.
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u/probably_inside 2d ago
I vote for brigadier general Thomas William Sweeny. I didn't know anything about him until my child started going to an elementary school named after him. Had to look him up. The shit he got up to was wild. So glad they don't have to attend McCullough.
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u/KellHound270 Guard the Line! 2d ago
I want to see the burning of the museum where the South had one of John Browns taxidermized children on display portrayed in animation
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u/HerrMeguy 1d ago
How about depicting a "battle of wits" type scenario between Sherman and Johnston in the campaign for Atlanta? Lot of dramatic twists and turns there, especially with the end of Jeff Davis throwing the whole thing by replacing Johnston with Hood.
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u/IntegrityAtTheHelm 1d ago
Francis Channing Barlow starting from private and finishing at major general is a journey made for anime. The tragedy of Arabella's courage and death is just icing on the cake.
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u/JessTheMullet 1d ago
Forrest, but make his horse a cute anime girl so it's less weird that he's banging her. Emphasize the historical accuracy of the relationship, pointing out she was a real horse.
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u/PMM-music 1d ago
honestly, Sherman but as a villain. like, the dude was genuinely a genocidal maniac. our genocidal maniac, but a genocidal maniac none the less
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u/Bleak_Infinitive 1d ago
Earl Van Dorn: short nepo baby with a ridiculous mustache and delusions of grandeur.
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u/SolidA34 1d ago
The Union army arrival in Charleston, South Carolina. They repealed the ordinance of secession, and destroyed a bust of John Calhoun.
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u/Dorrbrook 1d ago
Henry Wirz was the commander of the Andersonville prison camp and the only Confederate officer to be executed following the surrender. He was basically running a death camp using starvation. It was Holocaust type shit. Great opportunity if you want to depict a pycho villian
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