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And how did confederates manage to take out 100,000 more yankee casualties than they suffered on their own?

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

Napoleon said, "The moral is to the physical as three is to one."

Well, since Napoleon said it I guess that makes it so!

You tout this thing in Texas. I doubt that you are telling the whole story.

Look it up if you doubt me! Look up the battles of Galveston, Sabine Pass, Mansfield, and the Red River campaign itself. The stuff about Brownsville and Corpus Christi is more obscure beyond mentioning the Battle of Palmeto Ranch, which is known simply because it was the last battle of the war. But it can be found if you do some serious research.

But I know which flag I see down at the post office.

Last I checked, the Post Office wasn't the seat of my state's government and when I do go to the seat of my state's government, I see the Lone Star flying as it has since the 1830's. At some of the government buildings it is along side five other flags at equal height, among them the confederate flag and US flag.