I'll dust off the books, but my recollection of Shermans Southern campaign is that it was for the most part unopposed and where he met opposition he went around rather than through it. I guess that is the mark of a good General. Patton did the same thing.

Our leaders today should pattern themselves after Robert E. Lee, who never took the credit and was more than willing to take the blame, as he does in this letter he wrote to Jeff Davis after Gettysburg.