[wardaddy]

Bragg held his ground in both Murfreesboro and Chattanooga/Chickamagua amongst other less grand battles yet he never took up the offensive on his "victories". He always either dug in or retreated. He should have been a Yankee general in Virginia during the pre-Meade era....he would have fit in fine. I'm suprised Forrest never stabbed him, I'm sure he thought about it. Bragg was a darling of Davis's and Davis was a worse political commander than Lincoln. Uh-OH!!...I've done it now, my Southern brethren are gonna have my head on a platter.

[weikel]

Lincoln wasn't really a bad commander himself when he interfered it ussually worked out well. His worst decision was to fire Meade after Gettysburg for allowing Lee to retreat( Meade was probably correct that his army needed time to recover and to bring up more supplies). Unfortunatley other than the William Scott Hancock, who was too old for a field command, his initial generals were dumbasses and he was reluctant to micromanage military operations.