I know many will hate him because he fought for the Confederacy but this is what Viscount Garnet Wolseley said of Lee:
"I have met many of the great men of my time, but Lee alone impressed me with the feeling that I was in the presence of a man who was cast in a grander mold and made of different and finer metal than all other men. He is stamped upon my memory as a being apart and superior to all others in every way-a man with whom none I ever knew, and very few of whom I have read, were worthy to be classed.
BTW, Wolseley was perhaps the greatest soldier ever produced by the British Empire.
Robert E. Lee will be in the top five. Integrity and honor is his legacy.
1 George Washington
2 Robert E. Lee
3 General George Patton
4 Ronald Reagan
5 George W. Bush
Second that! Hurrah!