In various threads on this site related to the ACW I have been exposed to numerous discussions involving comments and complaints related to the actions of various Civil War generals including Grant, Lee, Sherman, Jackson, Thomas, Johnston, McClellan, Hood, Burnside, Longstreet, Banks, Bragg, etc. My challenge to you is to find ways to expose any of the military leaders involved on the ACW to either written materials, schools of thought, or any other form of educational aid which existed during their lifetimes that could have alleviated their respective weaknesses and thus changed the course of the war. Then find PODs to fit that knowledge into their education be it by leading them to study the knowledge in question personally, or going as far as to change the whole educational system of the USA before their times at school.