2. The argument is something like "putting aside the cause they fought for, they showed tactical genius." Which is odd, because they lost.
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Though I gather the scholarship on Lee doesn't rate his generalship that highly
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The scholarship doesn't but popular memory does. That's part of what's going on here.
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Grant - hard-drinking, rough-edged, mongrel, flawed but fundamentally decent - is such a better exemplar of America than Lee.
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I think the overestimation of Lee, to the extent it exists, is largely a function of the fighting-against-hopeless-odds narrative.
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Also that people find Lee's attempts to win the Napoleonic Wars more appealing than Grant's success winning World War I
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