It is interesting that Lee, when he was an adviser to Jefferson Davis before taking command after Joseph Johnson was wounded, repeatedly asked that the army be mainly posted about the Confederate capitol and only other areas of the eastern South that he considered strategically important. Davis wouldn't listen and felt that the trans-Mississipi (where there was little infrastructure to sustain the South's economy) was of critical value. Accordingly, good Southern men were wasted and the war was lost when there was a reasonable chance it might have been won.
Davis, like Bush who signed on to Rumsfeld's limited-war strategy in pre-surge Iraq, was a good man but a poor wartime president.