[Non-Sequitur]

Grant was at most competent - amoung other totally incompetent Generals.

So then what you are saying is that Lee spent the first half of the war fighting and on several occasions being beaten by incompetent generals. And once he faced a merely competent general - your description not mine - he never once held the initiative and was forced to react rather than act for the duration of the war until he surrendered. That doesn't say much about Lee then, does it?

[agincourt1415]

You don't know much about the Civil War and it shows. Suggest you see the movie "Gods and Generals" when it comes out.