[familyofman]

"...your side lost over 100,000 more men than ours did. Often in war, the side that loses the most men also loses the battle - especially when those losses are so huge as to dwarf those of the competition as yankee losses did."

Check the losses on a percentage of population, the south took a much bigger hit. As far as who won - who's territory was occupied after the conflict - the side that holds the ground after the fight - wins. What was left of dixie after the fighting was over was a shambles. The 2 times the south 'invaded' the north went poorly for Lee (Antitem & Gettysburg). Hood did a real good job defending Atlanta as well, now didn't he?
If you can't finish what you start - it's best not to start the fight. Braveery and gallantry were on display - big time - by the soldiers in the fight(s). It's just too bad so many good young men had to die for a 'lost cause'.

[WKB]

It's just too bad so many good young men had to die for a 'lost cause'.



Well at least we have move forward to The Viet Nam
War maybe we can get to Iraq next.

[GOPcapitalist]

Check the losses on a percentage of population, the south took a much bigger hit.

Yeah, cause they were INVADED. The fact still remains though that a smaller southern army was able to inflict substantially greater casualties upon a larger and better equipped northern army both in battle deaths and deaths off the field. Winning the war was no easy task for the north and it strained every last resource they had over four long bloody years of failure to subdue something that Abe Lincoln first thought he could handle in about a month.

[GOPcapitalist]

If you can't finish what you start - it's best not to start the fight.

All we ever did was secede and ask the hostile armies sitting within our borders to leave and return to their own. Lincoln's the one who invaded us.