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He was fighting on his home turf in an era where defense was much stronger than offense and was fighting mostly losers like Little Mac. He had a high casualty rate, attacked the North twice when he didn't have to and got his clock cleaned both times. He did frontal assaults on trenches as late as the Petersburg Campaign when it should have been clear that was the height of stupidity by then. I am not saying he was a bad general but I am saying that he might not have been as good as his reputation.
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