Meade is also another example of mid-19th-century manhood that doesn't quite parse with our modern conceptions of masculinity -- and that's quite interesting.

Neither does Lee or Jackson though. Grant and Sherman are viewed as “modern” generals. The real Jackson, for instance, wouldn’t even fit in with modern evangelical Christianity. His beliefs bordered on a self-taught mysticism. It’s one reason I love when people hold them up. They don’t know them.