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even allowing for Jefferson Davis' control of grand strategy, Lee was an 1815 thinker whose Napoleonic ideas were outdated.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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True. He also lost more than Jackson. D.S. Freeman chronicles the steady loss of competent ANV generals from 1862-1865.
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