Here's a thought...

[JeffBrooks]

Lee in command.

Hardee and Richard Taylor for the two infantry corps.

Forrest for cavalry.

And Bragg as chief of staff.

Promising? Crazy?

Lee is by far the best army commander the Confederacy had or could have had.

Hardee was a good corps commander, but could have been better. He was clearly shaky at Peachtree Creek and Atlanta, but that could have been because of hos enraged he was at Hood's taking command of the army.

Taylor did very well during the Red River campaign and in other places. He could have turned out to be a wonderful corps commander.

Forrest was unsuited to being the cavalry commander of an army, and would be much better operating as an independent force.

Bragg would have made an excellent chief-of-staff, provided it was BEFORE his tenure as army commander so that he would not have already alienated half of the army's officers.

 

[JeffBrooks]

Benjamin Cheatham (who had a drinking problem - not sure how well he fought it, but it was an issue he had to face)

By our standards, pretty much everyone in 19th Century America had a drinking problem.

 

[Elennsar]

Cheatham struggled (successfully or otherwise) with drink. Stones River, for instance, he appears to have been losing to John Barleycorn.

That's the problem - that he's drunk enough that its showing in him, not whether or not any of us today would be able to remain conscious after drinking that much.