[Alberta's Child]

Good post.

I would eliminate almost every U.S. Civil War general from consideration as a great military leader. I say this because that war was fought using battlefield tactics that had already been proven costly and ineffective almost 100 years earlier in the American Revolution.

[Reily]

Napoleon made those tactics work, but by the 1840s Napoleonic tactics were obsolete. Of course all Civil War generals were taught to revere Napoleon.