[Zinzendorf]

If RE Lee was such a great general, they why did he sent his troops against cannon massed hub-to-hub, as he did at Malvern Hill? And then do virtually the same thing 1 year later at Gettysburg? He didn't seem to have learned too much from Malvern Hill. (If you've ever been there, it's more like Malvern Slope than Malvern Hill.)

I didn't see any mention of perhaps the greatest general on either side, Patrick Cleburne, aka "the Stonewall of the West." Only politics kept him at the relatively low rank that he had. (Politics in the Army of Tennessee? Perish the thought!)

And speaking of Stonewall (Jackson, that is), at the end of The War, he was just as popular (perhaps more so) that Lee. It was only in later years that the PR campaign of ex-Reb generals, lead by that dimwit Jubal Early, elevated Lee to icon status.

My vote of worst general (either side) would probably go to John B Hood. Remember Franklin! If the CSA hadn't gone out of business, Hood would most definitely have been court-martialed, and deservedly so.

To quote the final part of The Yellow Rose of Texas:

You may talk about your Beauregard,
and sing of Bobby Lee,
but the gallant Hood of Texas,
he played hell in Tennessee!