[Badeye]

I think our discussion would degenerate rather quickly, carton253. Unlike many, I view Jackson’s oh so highly touted ‘Valley Campaign’ to be more a commentary about the state of the Union’s leadership at that time more than any ‘skill’ on old Blue Light as a General officer.

I think Grant summed it up best after the war when he noted ‘Jackson died too early, before he could be tested by Sheridan, or Sherman, or Meade, or Hancock’.

[carton253]

So, pretty much you think that the Southern leadership was overrated.

But, in my novel, the Northern leadership are held in high regard.