One of the greatest generals.
One of my grandfathers............
The death of a great man.
“One of the greatest generals.”
Fighting a defensive battle, particularly on Virginia soil, Lee was without peer. He was help by the series of non-entities that the Union sent against him. On offense he was a disaster, and got his clock cleaned every time he did it.
He was an honorable man and a good, but not great, general.
I do wonder how he would have fared in the West, where the war was decided, which needed a good defensive general.