When I reported to my first company as an infantry lieutenant, my company commander had a quote from Rommel painted on the wall.
Well I think the OP was not based on a totality of Lee's military experience, more people bemoaning the besmirching of Lee's place in history. The revisionist camp on Lee I personally don't think has been a fair portrayal of his life. I think after reading plenty of Lee biographies my sense of the man is he had this 18th century sensibility when it came to state loyalty, more a colonial view of the country than a post Revolution view. To simplify that Lee had really been a racist, effete aristocrat is simplistic and not accurate. Why he shut out the moral and pragmatic factors when he decided to fight for the Confederacy is legitimate reason for debate.