Is Lee underrated?
IMO the only reason Confederacy endured as long as it did was his military genius.
Reading about ACW and Confederacy I realized how little he had at his disposal, how great was the disparity in just about everything between North and South, and yet he frustrated his opponents time and time again. His troops had problems acquiring food, let alone everything else.
>>3006805
>Is Lee underrated
No, there's a reason Lincoln tapped him as the major general to lead the Union army against the Confederates. Lee refused to fight against his homeland of Virginia and denied Lincoln.
It was only the ineptitude of McClellan that led Lee to win battles and then escape during the Peninsula Campaign and later on the hesitancy of Scott after Gettysburg to pursue Lee that Lee was able to find continued success on the battlefield.