Even you have to admit we put up one heck of a fight. Lincoln thought he'd have us conquered in a matter of weeks. He paid for his mistake with 4 long years of war that consumed thousands of lives including his own.
It may have taken the North longer than we at first anticipated, but we never doubted the outcome. Y'all came from the 'one southerner can whip 10 Yankees' school, and y'all still got yer ass kicked. A shock which some of you seem to have never gotten over.