[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.

[stand watie]

for a change, i agree with you. if Marse Robert hadn't been SUCH a gentleman, we would now be FREE!

the voters in the north would not have supported a 10-year partisan war that the north would have surely LOST!

for a FREE dixie,sw

[varina davis]

Sounds like your peerless general had his off days.

Brilliant deduction. No doubt you've heard of First Manassas? I could list the battle won by CSA generals with far less troops, supplies and equipment, but the amount of bandwidth won't allow it.