Better General: Ulysses S. Grant or Robert E. Lee

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Lee was probably the better tactical general, but Grant was definitely the better strategic general. As I've said before, Lee's reputation is greater than it ought to be because of him facing McClellan early on.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

To be fair, the South was facing impossible odds. Their only hope was that the North would let them go. Lee's delusion was that annihilating the Army of the Potomac would achieve that goal. It's what compelled him to wait an extra day in Sharpsburg after the bloody events along Antietam Creek in hopes McClellan would attack him in place. (Which goes to show that even as late as September 1862, Lee didn't really understand McClellan.) It's what caused him to engage in the Battle of Gettysburg.  If Lee had avoided battle whenever possible and simply led the Army of Northern Virginia in large scale foraging raids through the North, he could have both devastated Union morale and preserved his strength.

For Lee to have won the war using the strategy he followed, he would have had to face an opponent as reckless as John Bell Hood.