Was Lee a great general or was it Stonewall Jackson who made him look great?
My understanding is that Pickett never forgave him for that suicidal charge at Gettysburg after the war.
As I told someone else, the Plan was sound for the charge, and wasn't executed properly. Pickett was a pompous idiot, and Longstreet believed it would fail from the beginning.
Lee was an excellent strategist. Stonewall was brilliant as well, but Lee was better.