Here's Robert E. Lee's response to A. P Hill concerning the military deficiencies demonstrated by General Ambrose R. Wright during the Battle of Spotsylvania --

These men are not an army -- they are citizens defending their country. General Wright is not a soldier; he's a lawyer.

The soldiers know their duties better than the general officers do and they have fought magnificently. Sometimes I would like to mask troops and then deploy them, but if I were to give the proper orders, the general officers would not understand it; so I have to make the best of what I have and lose much time in making dispositions.

You understand all this, but if you humiliated General Wright, the people of Georgia would not understand. Besides, whom would I put in his place?

You'll have to do what I do: when a man makes a mistake, I call him to my tent, talk to him, and use the authority of my position to make him do the right thing the next time.