The South had poor military leadership. true or false?

Answer 1

False. The South, like the North had its share of good and poor military leaders. Anyone who claims the South's military leadership was "far superior" is suffering from amnesia and a bad case of wishful thinking.

Poor Confederate leaders included:

Braxton Bragg - bungled the invasion of Kentucky, forced back from Chattanooga, bungled Murfreesboro

John Bell Hood - lost at Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Ezra Church, and Jonesboro, and remember Franklin too!

Jefferson Davis - the micromanager of the Confederacy's Armies, stuck by Bragg, replaced Joseph E. Johnston with John Bell Hood, alienated Beauregard and Johnston

Gideon Pillow - ran away from his command (with John B. Floyd) at Fort Donelson, after handing his command over to his subordinates

Answer 2

False. The military leadership of the South was far superior to the Union leaders. The North ultimately won the war because of overwhelming resources.

Answer 3

Very false. The frequency of the change of commands in the North proves that. The South had some of the best leaders around, many were instructors at West Point, VMI etc.

Answer 4

It's general agreed that The South had better general leadership but they had their problems also. Bragg fall back from Chattanooga to Atlanta is just one example.

Burnside, Pope, Hooker are examples of poor Northern Generals

Answer 5

If you are speaking of the Civil war...no, the south lost because they did not have as much money or as many factories as the north.