re: #33 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

It was only recently that I came to the realization that Lee wasn’t the immense strategic genius that the whitewashed history books make him out to be. He gets talked up so much because he was winning, but his opponents up until Grant were borderline incompetent. The Lost Cause authors gave him a reputation that I feel is undeserved, but it sticks around because we can’t disparage this noble, honorable warrior general.

He was the superintendent of West Point and one of the strategy & tactics instuctors, and before that a hero of the Mexican-American war. He couldn’t have been a total doofus.