yep...
the Union had capable commanders, but they weren't facing Lee and they were hamstrung by politics and DC.
The same thing happened to US in Vietnam about 100 years later.....except the numbers and the battles were much more lopsided to the US that time around.....
Wouldn't it be nice if the politicians would just leave us alone? Wouldn't it be nice if they would just leave war to the military experts? Wouldn't it be nice if I had a trillion dollars?.......I'd come closer to getting my trillion that see those pompous, bloated, know-nothing politicans on Crapitol Hill let that happen.