re: Robert E. Lee has been misrepresented by regressive "historians"

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With rifled muskets and on the defense, the Rebels should have simply been unbeatable.

They weren't completely on the defense. They had to expel a bigger force from the south to keep supply lines open. They couldn't just dig in at Richmond. They would have eventually starved.

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They should have been able to maintain a strategic and operational defense. Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. But Lee had to attack anything he saw - even Fort Stedman at the very end of his personal misadventure.