That kind of thinking shows how little policymakers care for their own soldiers.
Bullets are,or at least should be, much cheaper than soldiers’ lives!
The Southern Confederacy didn’t have the manufacturing base to make thousands of lever-action arms or even sufficient revolvers,else I believe thay would have used those weapons.The Union soldier was on a political mission,the Southern was defending his home..
That is exactly right.
The only people who "won" that war never saw a shot fired in anger ..... but chowed down heartily every damn day of the war, and probably a few times at Delmonico's in New York (assuming they were already open by then).
Except for the few that went out with Lincoln to the parapets to look at Juban Early's Confederates during his famous demonstration before Washington in 1864.