Lee's war strategy was indefensible. He may have been a great battlefield tactition - I'm not qualified to say - but he deliberately pushed the confederacy into an unwinnable situation. That was all him.
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Then you look at his battlefield blunders, eg. Gettysburg and you wonder how his legend ever grew in the first place. But I'm sorry, the very idea of a northern campaign would have been funny if not for the 10's of thousands of dead and wounded. Such a senseless sacrifice, and that was 100% Lee.
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Only an egomaniacal crackpot embittered by a lack of recognition from his superiors and obsessed with his own ambition would have tried something so asinine. And well, that was Lee in a nutshell. So no, Lee was a terrible general, in almost every way.
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The Union's arrogance and inability to cooperate gave Lee a chance in the early days, which turned out to be fool's gold after he was exposed.
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