Which Confederate Generals Hurt the Confederate Cause?

Which Confederate Generals Hurt the Confederate Cause

  • P.G.T. Beauregard

    Votes: 7 9.5%
  • Braxton Bragg

    Votes: 42 56.8%
  • John Breckinridge

    Votes: 5 6.8%
  • Jubal Early

    Votes: 7 9.5%
  • Richard Ewell

    Votes: 9 12.2%
  • Nathan Bedford Forrest

    Votes: 7 9.5%
  • John B. Gordon

    Votes: 2 2.7%
  • William Hardee

    Votes: 3 4.1%
  • A.P. Hill

    Votes: 5 6.8%
  • D.H. Hill

    Votes: 3 4.1%
  • John Bell Hood

    Votes: 19 25.7%
  • Stonewall Jackson

    Votes: 4 5.4%
  • Albert Sidney Johnston

    Votes: 7 9.5%
  • Joseph Johnston

    Votes: 5 6.8%
  • Robert E. Lee

    Votes: 24 32.4%
  • James Longstreet

    Votes: 4 5.4%
  • John C. Pemberton

    Votes: 13 17.6%
  • Leonidas Polk

    Votes: 22 29.7%
  • Jeb Stuart

    Votes: 11 14.9%
  • Joseph Wheeler

    Votes: 7 9.5%

  • Total voters
    74
Bragg, he completely screwed up the war West of the Appalachians, missing chances and forgetting the point of the campaign

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Grey Wolf
 
My favoured choice is not on the list George Pickett so I opted for Forrest although his damage was more poltical than military and probably had more effect after the war in alienating people from sympathy with the Confederacy
 
It would also have helped if Lee's skills as a general were as an offensive general. He was a very good leader of a defensive campaign but had the typical 1860s fetish for attacking.

Hattaway and Jones "How the North Won" makes a good case for Lee being one of the more successful ACW generals on the offense. Of course, factors strongly favored the defense in that war - Lee still lost on the offense more than he won.
 
Hattaway and Jones "How the North Won" makes a good case for Lee being one of the more successful ACW generals on the offense. Of course, factors strongly favored the defense in that war - Lee still lost on the offense more than he won.

If that were the case then surely the Confederacy would have held the Union well away from Petersburg and the Vicksburg siege would not have been won by the North. It wasn't so much that offense was disfavored as people underestimated the sheer killing power of rifles. Once that was understood Union generals did a far better job of adapting to it than Confederate ones did.
 
My favoured choice is not on the list George Pickett so I opted for Forrest although his damage was more poltical than military and probably had more effect after the war in alienating people from sympathy with the Confederacy

Why Pickett? The Charge was not his idea, he only commanded 1/3 of the CSA forces involved, and his men got the furthest.
 
Lee & Stuart

I hate to say it, but Marse Robert for Picket's Charge @ Gettysburg. :(

J.E.B. Stuart for the way he performed during entire Gettysburg campaign. :mad:
 
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