Poseur Ranks the World: Civil War Generals

150 years later, we hand out the final gradesThis week marks the 150th anniversary of General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, thus ending the Civil War. Surprisingly, it has met with little notice or fanfare, which is odd, considering the Civil War is its own cottage industry.

But the big 150 slipped by, largely unnoticed. But not here at Poseur HQ, where we have endeavored to dig through history, or at least a few episodes of Ken Burns' miniseries, to rank the greatest Civil War generals.

I ended up with five Union and five Confederate generals, almost entirely by accident. There was no requirement of a balanced list, it just shook out that way, but we'll see if our commentariat…