One of Lee’s most noted critics, the retired British Major General J. F. C. Fuller, lays responsibility directly at the feet of the Commanding General: “this lack of appreciation that administration is the foundation of strategy; this lack of interest in routine, and abhorrence to exert his authority, maintained his army in a state of semi-starvation and were the causes of much of its straggling and ill-discipline.” Historians differ on the validity of Fuller’s critique, but throughout the war, Lee’s forces, hamstrung by sources of supply dependent upon individual states, fragile
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