Thank you for your comment...there are, indeed, no men of this stature in the political or military life of this country...both were recognized for outstanding leadership in the Mexican War and I am reminded of a question (paraphrased) the tyrant Abraham Lincoln made to General Winfield Scott when he asked him why he could not take Richmond when he had taken Mexico City in one day. General Scott replied that it was the same men who had taken Mexico City that were holding Richmond. Well-educated historians with no axe to grind recognize that Lee and Jackson were the true patriots who could no longer defend a country that had abandoned its constitution and rule of law.