Once again, you're playing with definitions of words.
What you are here calling "stalemate" most Confederates & Unionists would have called "Confederate victory".
central_va: "do you really think the people of the South are that dumb to think that they could invade/conquer/occupy the North"
They certainly did invade Union states & territories, conquered some parts and occupied as long as they could.
Here, yet again, is the list:
So now central_va wishes to define that as "stalemate" but I'm saying that would be a huge Confederate victory and virtual destruction of the United States.
Like I said, you're just playing with definitions of words.
Joe the North fought with one arm behind its back. The South was never a threat to the North. It is all in your mind. There was military action along a huge front from MD thru Kansas. But the South was never going to invade and hold the North. Ever.