re: Just how incompetent was Jefferson Davis?

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He at least had talent at appointing generals (unlike the leader up north).

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He had a talent for appointing two generals: Albert Sidney Johnston and Robert E. Lee. Most of the rest were mediocre to below average. He stayed with Braxton Bragg longer than he should have because the two of them were friends. As a result, any hope of a successful Confederate counter-offensive in the western theater after the fall of Vicksburg was dashed on the slopes in front of Chattanooga.

John Pemberton should have never been near a high command position and John B. Hood was a general whose skills should have been confined to the divisional level. He did not have the temperament necessary to command an army.