[BroJoeK]

Lagmeister: "And no, Lee's losses at Gettysburg and Antietam did not amount to the nearly 70 thousand that Grant pissed away in the Overland Campaign."

Lee's total losses in his losing effort were greater than Grant's war winning battles.
Grant imposed more casualties on his enemies than on his own forces, and as a percentage of his forces, Grant's losses were far less.

Presumably you'll want to challenge me to produce the numbers, and I can, but will have to wait for later, must go for now.

[Lagmeister]

You are playing with numbers and you know it. Try dealing with the facts at hand. No way in hell can Grant explain away his horrific losses because of his Overland Strategy. No way you can explain it away. Stop trying to suggest that in the Overland Strategy that Grant inflicted more casualties on Lee than he suffered. Hell, Lee didn't have that many men in his entire army.

Stop trying to go back to 1862. Both men had completely different challenges.

Grant butchered almost as many of his own men in a few months than the number of casualties that Lee suffered in the years of his entire command. In short: it took Grant months to lose what Lee lost in over three years.