My understanding is that most or all Confederate records were lost or destroyed, so very little is now known about the inner workings and ideas of Confederate leadership.
This editorial suggests something quite different.
What do you know about it?
Just what I learned from a post on one of my threads. I don't remember if it was from Civil War Notebook or an excerpt from one of the histories. I will chew on it and try to recall the source.
I found this article from the May 23 NYT thread. “North Carolina” on page 4 there or here=> https://www.nytimes.com/1865/05/23/archives/north-carolina-the-records-of-the-rebel-war-departpartment-captured.html?searchResultPosition=1