Robert E. Lee was a great tactician who often prevailed or endured against superior forces. As a strategist, even allowing for Jefferson Davis' control of grand strategy, Lee was an 1815 thinker whose Napoleonic ideas were outdated. Grant & Sherman were the men of the future.
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At one point Jeff Davis supposedly offered command of the Army of the Tennessee to Longstreet (who was there with two divisions). Longstreet however was too loyal to Lee. Considering the union leadership I am not sure it would have made a difference.
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Are you talking about at Chattanooga in October-November 1863? Davis visited and tried to quell a mutiny led by Hindman, S.D. Lee and Longstreet, but Davis backed Bragg and sent Longstreet on his foolish mission to Knoxville.
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Yep- Grant was a solid talent scout (Sherman, Sheridan, McPherson) but the mismatch is pretty comical- Army of the Potomac produced an outstanding Corps leader with Hancock, two good one in Reynolds and Sedgewick, and that’s about it.
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Consider also that for most of the Overland Campaign Lee was without Longstreet, had A.P. Hill indisposed with syphilis, and had to fire Richard Ewell after Spotsylvania. The leadership of the Army of Northern Virginia in Fall '64 is nowhere near where it was '62/'64
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Longstreet returned to Lee's army before the Overland Campaign really took off at Wilderness, May 1864.
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confederates never knew how easy they had it. confeds losing stonewall and the union moving sheridan to the shenandonah valley crippled lee. lee had a smaller force so relied on putting the right amount of men at the right time. that was stonewall.
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Would you say the union hall of incompetence was worse than the CSA's. And i have always thought the csa in the west was under manned and supplied
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Worse? No. But yes, the CSA in the West was under-prioritized. Hell, the capital was moved to Richmond so Jeff Davis could have better operational control of what he knew would be the major front.
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