[0.E.O]

Longstreet and Jackson were “modern” generals that believed in maneuver warfare, using terrain to you advantage, surprise and deception.

They were also two generals who fit in well under Lee's leadership style, which was to give his subordinate commanders broad ideas of what his intent was and leave it to them to put those ideas into action. Longstreet and Jackson could do that. Ewell and Hill, not so much.

[RedMonqey]

Longstreet and Jackson could do that. Ewell and Hill, not so much.

I have often wondered what Gen.Nathan Bedford Forrest could have accomplished had he been given a larger command than the short sighted, truly elitist command given him.

His lack of formal military education and social status among the plantation elite hurt him but wounded the Lost Cause even more....