[varina davis]

But not those of Lee, Jackson, Johnston, and Bragg?

Bragg and Hood a few others have some tall 'splainin' to do, but Lee, Jackson, Beauregard, Gordon -- well the list is too long -- are without peer.

[Non-Sequitur]

Even though he was a devoted student of the Napoleonic style of warfare? Lee sent his men into the teeth of the Union cannon on Malvern Hill in 1862. It was a bloody disaster. He did the same with Pickett's division just over a year later with the same results. No Francis Marion-style of tactics for him. Lee lost to McClellan, to Meade, and to Grant. Sounds like your peerless general had his off days.