Rick,

Maybe not as scenic, but I would recommend a staff ride of the Vicksburg campaign. General Grant catches much heat for too readily expending the lives of union soldiers, but that campaign is a testament to his ability to outmaneuver an enemy through the use of joint arms and creativity. I also highly recommend "The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign" by Shelby Foote.

Crazy? Probably not clinically. But he was a bit loopy. Consider his record of court martialing his officers. And he would have fit in well in our 'Christian-Soldier Army' of the present day - one of the original Christers. No, not crazy, but...

Perhaps his greatest contribution to Lee's army was just in being a pretty good/pretty great general. When he was lost in 1863, this was the leading edge of the capitation of the generals corps in Lee's army. Lee ran out of generals, crazy or not.

Maybe even by 19th c. standards. Was very Sabbatarian--wouldn't mail a letter late in the week because he didn't want it moving through the system on a Sunday. (But he was hardly unique in that: recall the "Quaker City" pilgrim--narrated by Twain in INNOCENTS ABROAD--who expected the ship to drop anchor on Sundays?)

Had some diet and health obsessions--again, far from unique in the 19th (or later) centuries.

Was fearless in battle--his Calvinism had more than a little in common with fatalism. Figured when God wanted you to die, you would die, and you could neither hurry nor delay it.

But Grant, who doesn't seem to have had a pious bone in his body, had much the same attitude.

Another aspect of his eccentricity (and connected to his being a "Christer"): he ran a Sunday school for slaves. Not the most conventional thing to be doing in post-Nat Turner Virginia.

Interpreting "Old Jack's" eccentricities as being crazy would be incorrect. Probably first among Gen. Lees commanders professionally, the Stonewall's main fault lay with his often severe exacting standards which always left him lacking in subordinates who fit or fulfilled his standards of command.