Yet the your beloved yankees took 4 years and 350,000 lives to conquer the south. If the CSA's effort was, as you say, a miserable failure, what does that tell us about the yankees who had such a hard time conquering them?
BTW, in case you were hoping otherwise I noticed you evaded the majority of my response to McPherson's fraudulent assertions in your quote, not to mention your continued evasion of my article rebutting McPherson at the top of this thread.
They had the follow through to win, that's what.
Another word for loser is "CSA".
It says something about someone so determined to side with the losers.
Walt