[HockeyPop]

By the time Grant took command the South was penniless, shoeless, had 1/10th the industrial might of the North and woefully outmanned (in sheer #s). The North was fielding fresh conscripts (mostly Irish immigrants). Sherman? He was a war criminal who starved, burned out and murdered civilians.

[Bull Snipe]

The Union Army conscripted less than 10% of its total strength during the war. Actually, the Confederate Army drafted a slightly higher % of its manpower than the North did, about 11-12%. The Civil War, on both sides, was fought overwhelmingly by men who volunteered.

[DiogenesLamp]

By the time Grant took command the South was penniless, shoeless, had 1/10th the industrial might of the North and woefully outmanned (in sheer #s). The North was fielding fresh conscripts (mostly Irish immigrants). Sherman? He was a war criminal who starved, burned out and murdered civilians.

Finally someone who grasps the reality of what happened.

[DoodleDawg]

By the time Grant took command the South was penniless, shoeless, had 1/10th the industrial might of the North and woefully outmanned (in sheer #s). The North was fielding fresh conscripts (mostly Irish immigrants). Sherman? He was a war criminal who starved, burned out and murdered civilians.

Blah, blah, blah. Having chosen to start the war the South alone is responsible for all the death and destruction and misery that it brought to them.