Battle casualties were 110,000 to 94,000. Just can't keep from lying, can you?
The insurgent area was 10% larger than the loyal area.
Given the ascendancy in this period of the defense over the offense, the rebels had a very good chance of winning their independence.
The rebel government was maladroit, the people's enthusiasm lukewarm, southern governor's hewed to states rights at all costs, the slave power couldn't be deprived of their slaves -- and the thirty year conspiracy died in defeat and disgrace.
Walt
But war casualties were 350,000 yankees to 250,000 confederates, and that with better medical treatment available on the northern side. Those 350,000 yankees didn't simply decide upon a random death when they got to the south, Walt. They died because of the war.
The insurgent area was 10% larger than the loyal area.
But only a fraction of the latter's population.
Given the ascendancy in this period of the defense over the offense
On what do you base that, Walt? Wars of both types occured throughout the world in the middle 19th century. And even if you think that to have been so, The Lincoln did not. His commanders thought they could make a quick march to Richmond and, as Seward said, everything would be back to normal in a month.