Yeas.Mbo,that's what I meant,and plenty of good ol' boys rode as Cavalrymen with Jeb Stuart,not just the gentry.

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I read an interesting article recently that explained some of Lee's superiority over McClellan,Hooker,Meade, and most of the Generals thrown against him in the early going.Most of these generals,Lee included,were trained engineers.Their method of evolving strategies and implementing tactics were very "engineer-like"...they would evolve a structured plan of battle,seek to implement it,and when the chaos of battle ensued they would either adhere rigidly to it,or withdraw,regroup,and go back to the drawing board. Lee was different.He was almost always outnumbered,but relied on immediate battlefield information and knowledge of his opponents movements to determine the soft points in the opposing line. He would then concentrate his forces in a massive punch at this soft point(s),initiating chaos and panic in the enemy ranks. This method served him well until the notable failure at Pickett's Charge,which was based on inadequate information and a failure of his unrivalled (until then) intuition regarding the opponent.He had also been served well by the Union's habit of joining battle with a rigid plan,withdrawing,and joining battle again. When Grant took control of the Army of the Potomac,this habit was abandoned. Grant knew that no individual battle loss was significant in itself...the Union had the superiority in manpower and materials that would eventually force the Confederacy's defeat if the pressure was maintained.By the time,at Petersburg,Lee had abandoned his brilliant offensive tactics and entrenched his army.he had as good as acknowledged this fact himself.