[DoodleDawg]

That was of course their opinion.

You present your opinion as fact, why not them?

Grant ran the numbers and made the obvious conclusion. The prisoner exchanges were helping the Confederacy more than they were helping the Union because the Union simply had more men and thus could afford to lose more.

So you would have us believe.

[FLT-bird]

You present your opinion as fact, why not them?

This has been cited numerous times by numerous sources. I provided a source for this already. I’m simply not going to play this game of digging up more and more sources and you saying you deem this or that source unacceptable. If you choose not to believe it fine. As I said, it has been widely reported.

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So you would have us believe.

That was the basis of Grant’s strategy. He well understood the numerical reality. That was why he kept pressing on despite taking staggering losses.