Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South
Ceaser fought with better quality of troops better taining better supplied and better weapons.
Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
Lee was faced with far more challenging battles in his career than Ceasar was. Lee took a terrible scrappy army and turned it into a fighting machine that came close to turning the war around--despite the massive industrial and numerical advantages of the North. And in the end, he even secured a decent peace for his troops.
I won't get into the Lee vs. Caesar debate, but I've never seen the quality of the CSA's troops questioned before. A "terrible scrappy army"? Confederate cavalry consistently outfought their Union counterparts until the later stages of the war, their infantry also regularly outclassed the bluecoats for much of the war (leading one general [Phil Sheridan?] to state that with Confederate infantry and Union artillery, he'd be unbeatable), and their officer corps was second to none. And let's not forget that even under the command of Joe Johnston, the Confederates won at First Manassas and stopped McClellan at Seven Pines (admittedly it was left to Lee drive McClellan back). If the CSA had lacked a quality army until Lee "turned it into a fighting machine", the war would have been too short for such to happen - or for Lee to have made a name for himself.