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Look I already explained why Shermans was mediocre, he was behind enemy lines, it was 1864 what defense was the confederates throwing up after multiple defeats and heavy losses at such places like Vicksburg, and the Tennessee campaign? IT doesnt take a great general or even a good one to keep an army in the field under some order as they raise farms, factories and other means of war. As a matter of fact it was amiracle that the MArch tot he sea didnt turn into a route, Sherman winged it and decided to live off the land, if the Confederates could have used a scorced earth policy, and has a sufficent foces to counter Sherman could have been crushed.
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If taking the war into the enemies heartland, behind their lines with a well supplied force that one keeps supplied and that army rips that heart out of the enemy is the mark of a bad commander...
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To me Civil war leaders are like football coaches playing with the same book, they all have the plays and everybody else knows how to counter them.
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Play books can change awfully fast.
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Grant realized that no matter how good Lee was we only had so many men. He just slowly wore down Lee army. And would not let the Union Army retreat.
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He put on and kept on pressure.