Had The South put more into a guerilla war with the likes of John Mosby it could have been a lot nastier. Though it’s difficult to see how the South could have prevailed over yankee logistics.
Very good point. As history after the Civil War shows (thinking especially of Vietnam here), the best way for a technologically and industrially inferior power to fight against a superior one is to get away from large armies fighting set battles and turn the conflict into a guerilla war. That might have been a way for the South to win, but the dictates of military honor of the time probably would not have allowed the Southerners to truly consider widespread use of that strategy.