[Rockingham]

Lee’s generalship is subject to criticism in recent years for the high casualties he repeatedly incurred by going on the tactical offensive against prepared Union lines. Eventually, the South was bled dry and exhausted. In addition, Lee was sometimes vague in his orders and did not always coordinate his subordinates well. Lost Cause mythmaking has tended to inflate Lee’s military reputation.

[wardaddy]

Wow

80 posts before your strawman bullshit

Feel better ?

Just shows this forum as a whole is a far better place than you handful of south haters

So go screw yourself

[Pelham]

“The next year at the Battle of Cold Harbor, Grant ordered even more disastrous frontal attacks against Lee’s trenches than he had at Vicksburg. On June 3, 1864, he suffered more than 7,000 casualties, including about 4,000 in the first eight-minute attack. During the rest of the day Grant’s men deceptively disobeyed further assault orders by temporarily intensifying their firing rate while remaining in place. The historian Bruce Catton wrote, “Even Burnside’s hopeless attack on Fredericksburg had not been so brutally smashed.” Similar to Vicksburg, Grant delayed four days before admitting that, unlike Confederates, the Union side needed a truce to collect between-the-lines casualties.”- Phil Leigh, NYTimes

“Lee is the greatest military genius in America, myself not excepted.”- General Winfield Scott

“What General Lee’s feelings were I do not know. As he was a man of much dignity, with an impassible face, it was impossible to say whether he felt inwardly glad that the end had finally come, or felt sad over the result, and was too manly to show it. Whatever his feelings, they were entirely concealed from my observation; but my own feelings, which had been quite jubilant on the receipt of his letter, were sad and depressed. I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly...”- Ulysses Grant, Appomattox

[BroJoeK]

Rockingham: "Lee’s generalship is subject to criticism in recent years for the high casualties he repeatedly incurred by going on the tactical offensive against prepared Union lines...."

Exactly.
Lee's downfall was his preference for offense when his resources could only support defense.
The result was he used up his men at a rate faster than the Confederacy could replace.

[central_va]

Wrong. Lee’s infantry tactics are studied throughout military academies world wade.