CSA military prowess has been grossly inflated by myth, and myth alone.
If that is the case, how did 44 men hold off an army of 5,000 on 20+ warships at Sabine Pass? How was a heavily equipped full scale campaign for the Red River, complete with naval support, repulsed by a significantly smaller confederate force starting with Mansfield? How did smaller confederate armies thoroughly route the yankees at Fredericksburg? At Manassas? At Chancellorsville? And how did confederates manage to take out 100,000 more yankee casualties than they suffered on their own?
Sounds like your side took a pretty heavy losses for fighting a "mythical" enemy!
Napoleon said, "The moral is to the physical as three is to one."
This means that it takes at lest three attackers to dislodge one defender. But the ratio was roughly only 3 to 2. To even break even the so-called CSA would have needed 3 to 1; of course the CSA armies colapsed and melted away, so maybe it isn't really the measure after all.
You tout this thing in Texas. I doubt that you are telling the whole story. But I know which flag I see down at the post office.
Walt
You're talking about this far west thing. I'd say holding Nashville was more important.
The Army of Tennessee essentially never had any victories at all, except for Chickamaugua.
They did a lot of campaining and a lot of dying without much to show for it.
Walt