[attiladhun2]

I don’t believe Lee was such a great general, only that the North had such bad leadership until Grant, Sheridan, and Sherman came along, who understood that the key to defeating the Confederacy was to destroy her economic base and not her armies.

[stinkerpot65]

Am I the only one creeped out by this?

[ontap]

He served as superintendent at West Point and his tactics are still taught there. Other than that I guess you are right. sarc/on

[Georgia Girl 2]

“I don’t believe Lee was such a great general”

He was so bad that the North begged him to head up the Federal army. He could not abandon his beloved state of VA so he went with the Confederacy.

[Sherman Logan]

I don’t believe Lee was such a great general, only that the North had such bad leadership until Grant, Sheridan, and Sherman came along, who understood that the key to defeating the Confederacy was to destroy her economic base and not her armies.

Destroying the economic base only became necessary because they were unable to destroy the Confederate armies, to a very considerable extent because Lee was too effective as a general.