Underrated Confederate Generals

[GELongstreet]

My first usual answer would be Maj. Gen. Franklin Gardner; who showed at Port Hudson how, though ultimately being defeated as well, a strong defense could look like. He´d been a cavalry leader in the west during the early phase of the war though there is rather little known of that affair. He missed over a year as POW and after being exchanged he served under Richard Taylor. But to be underrated one must have a rating at all and for this one must be known ...

And the other would of course be Brig. Gen. Nathan G. Evans; that other guy at 1st Bull Run who is not spoken of (because there already is Stonewall of course); and who was victorious at Ball's Bluff with n for once actually bearable loss rate. But being sidelined for extreme disputability and (alleged) heavy drinking aren´t the best ways to boost your ratings. He was transferred and court-martialled (though aquitted) several times and also was wounded which meant more time to be not seen.

There are other, and more prominent, examples of underrated people but many of those have been named already.

 

[KeyserSoze]

For the most part I think Confederate generals tend to be overrated rather than underrated.