How does it feel to almost get your butt beat by a bunch of farmers with mules and pitchforks?
Both armies were filled with farmers.
The major reason why the Union was ever in danger on the battlefield was not the Confederate rank and file, but the generalship of Robert E. Lee.
And Robert E. Lee, far from being a farmer with a pitchfork and a mule, was about the closest thing America had to a European prince.