I think he’s quoting someone else. I may be mistaken, but I don’t think those were his words.
Any words I quote are in italics with " " around them and some indication of the source, a link if nothing else.
Anything else are my own words, though I make no claims to "original thinking", and it's very likely that somewhere, some-time in the past I read similar words from somebody a lot smarter than me.
In this particular case, as our FRiend rockrr explains in post #26, I am merely expressing the normal & genuine opinion of nearly all pro-Union posters here, that Confederates made a much better showing than a simple tally of their resources (or lack of) might suggest.
Americans hold in similar high regard other great warriors -- for example, Chief Black Hawk has a helicopter named after him, as does the entire Apache nation.
Our navy has whole fleets named after Indian tribes and individual Indians -- from USS Pawnee & Pocahontas to Sacajawea & Chickasaw.
In 1998 the US named an operation against Iraq for an especially effective German WWII leader: Operation Desert Fox.
The Brits in our Revolutionary War are often referred to as the world's greatest super-power of the time, against whom American Minute-Man farmers were only occasionally able to stand, man for man.
We could name many others...
Indeed, until recent years it was not even controversial to name Navy ships and Army bases or weapons for Confederate leaders.
Sure, in 20-20 hindsight their defeat seems inevitable, but it might also have come much quicker & easier.