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How is the subject singular in this question?
"Why the various Generals of the Army of the Potomac before Ulysses S. Grant, such as McClellan and Meade, were singularly so unsuccessful against Robert E. Lee....
The various generals of the army and were in the non underlined portion clearly indicate that the subject is plural.
If you examine the meaning of the sentence, you will see the debated thing is the failure of those generals against Robert E.Lee, not those generals themselves have been debated.
Grammatically speaking, Why X were Y is a noun clause, and this noun clause should be agreed with singular verb. You can search nominal clause that play its role as a noun
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