What’s the name of the book? Like to check it out
Hey with guys line Grant, Sheridan and you namesake in the west, I’m not surprised.
In sharp contrast with VA, none of the commanding CSA generals in the West were very effective. Some truly excellent second-level officers, like Taylor, Cleburne and Forrest, but the commanders, no.
Never sure why. Possibly they just were faced with an enormously more difficult task than Lee, who only had to defend (or attack) on a front only about 200 miles wide. That’s very different from one over 1000 miles wide, plus naval attacks on the coasts and Mississippi.