What do you suppose Messrs. Bragg, Polk, Pemberton, Buckner, Pillow, and Johnston would have said?
Probably that with rare exception, they were defeated by superior numbers, the issue that you seem to be avoiding. Or we can discuss Chickamauga if you like, where there was rough parity.
You really have no clue about anything west of the Shenandoah, do you?
Nice try. I'll cheerfully yield to your obvious expertise in the Western theater. I generally find myself too disgusted with the poor Confederate generalship there (though not with the fighting abilities of the ragamuffins). But I will remind you that the Trans-Mississippi, last time I looked, was also west of the Shenandoah. The Union army was kind enough to supply a Confederate army there, too.
Or if they had, the rebellion would have been put down much more quickly.
[sigh] The mind boggles. By all means, feel free to expain how numerical parity would have doomed the Confederates even sooner.
otoh, had THAT happened the WHOLE of dixie's people might have risen in TOTAL REVOLT & actually won the LONG (& under those circumstances) & REALLY nasty war.
free dixie,sw