I think Lee was also influenced by the fact that he'd won so many battles against superior forces. He'd begun to think his soldiers were divinely inspired and able to do anything he asked of them. What a bitter lesson it was to realize and accept the error in his thinking. And what a fine man he was to accept the responsibility so completely. I'd like to have known him.
Amen to that, brother. Lee was one of the greatest Americans ever to live, general of the "Lost Cause" or not.