Maybe, maybe not. What history does show us is he wasn’t very good at the job, as it was detailed in the CSA constitution. He micromanaged way too much, gave in to political appointments for combat units with disasterous results (Polk, Bragg come to mind) and in the end was moving units that didn’t actually exist, as if they did, eerily reminiscent of Hitler in the last days of The Reich.
(disclaimer for you ‘Lost Cause’ types, I’m not comparing Jefferson Davis to Adolph Hitler, so don’t bother flaming me on that score).
Somebody once noted that ‘The Confederacy needed either a great stateman, or a great military leader. IN Jefferson Davis, they got neither.’
I think that about sums it up.
Wow, I got in before someone called him a “traitor”!
As did Lincoln, to be fair.
If yu want to be a great statesman or military leader, it helps if your armies win their battles. Chance always plays a role. But for the discovery of orders wrapped around some cigars, McClellan would never had cornered Lee at Antietam.