General Discussion

He could care less about the rest of the Confederacy, and it pretty much showed.
Thing is, when you look at it without all the Lost Cause / Gone With the Wind romanticism, most of the other Confederate Generals pretty much had the same attitude. Their Plantation Home, their Clan, their State.
There were few plantation outsiders in the Confederate military leadership - and they were the few that kept the Confederate military on its feet as long as it was able to...with the help of way too many Union Officers who had pretty much bought their position (through money or politics) rather than actually ever fought or studied strategy before.
So long as he had money behind him, Pete Kegsbreath would have fit in well with most of the "Gentlemen Officer Corps" of the Civil War.