America’s greatest general.
You beat me, but this Northerner agrees.
Pretty select group of "best generals": Washington, Lee, Pershing, Patton and Eisenhower, have to be in the top five. Each had strengths, some more so then the others.
Few of them had any glaring weaknesses, Patton being the notable exception.
A highly dubious claim that rests on cherry picking Lee's victories, ignoring his defeats, and failing to recognize that he had no strategic vision, nor did he learn from past mistakes. Had Lee been educable, thousands of men who died at Gettysburg would have been saved. But he failed to listen to his best general, Longstreet, and he failed to learn from exactly the same blunder he had already committed at Malvern Hill. Flame away; Lee is highly overrated. He had the advantage of fighting mostly defense, mostly from entrenched positions, and mostly against attacking forces that, while larger, were not the three or four times numerical superiority dictated for offensive operations in the nineteenth century. His two Northern Invasions were disasters: the Sack of Chambersburg and the depredations of his army in Maryland hardened Northern opposition, and Gettysburg would have been a war-ending fiasco had he faced a bolder or more able opponent.