huh. If we're talking about the "general consensus" You are perhaps the only person I've heard of who would put both lee and grant on the list. Some would add

huh. If we're talking about the "general consensus" You are perhaps the only person I've heard of who would put both lee and grant on the list. Some would add Lee (though personally, I think that is for political/tribal reasons more than anything else... but I do acknowledge than many have a high opinion of the man, especially when it came to cavalry.) - but even those of us who sympathize with the north generally don't rate Grant much above 'competent enough' - he got the job done, but nobody is going to compare him to Caesar or Napoleon.