This is crazy.

I know that some of the battles that were fought and lost on the field affected the generals, but come on. Why couldn't they realize that the best way to save their men is to fight and win making the total conflict shorter therefor making the war itself shorter. I think that Lincoln should have replaced his bad Generals faster with those who were winning on the western front.
Also, my no-it-all sister told me a story about Braxton Braggs having a written arguement with himself at one point in the war. Has anyone else heard of this? I have found a couple of places on the internet with the story but was unsure about it's crediblity.