[Blood of Tyrants]

As I just said, by the time Grant beat Lee, his army was poorly equipped, injured, and half starved. The armies of the North and South could never be thought of as equal. Lee did much better with less than Grant ever could have.

BTW, here is an interesting bit of trivia totally unrelated to the subject. After one battle, the Confederates went and picked up all the rifles that had been abandoned or dropped on the battlefield. Of the 37,000 rifles picked up, 24,000 had been improperly loaded and would not fire.

[Alouette]

Of the 37,000 rifles picked up, 24,000 had been improperly loaded and would not fire.

I once asked a Civil War reenactor to explain the procedure of loading a black-powder musket. They were extremely cumbersome and difficult to load correctly in drill, much more so in actual battle situation.

The cavalry were issued repeating, breech-loading rifles which were the "state of the art" for that time.

[Alouette]

The Rothschilds backed the Confederacy.

They lost millions.

[luvbach1]

Winning with what you have is the name of the game in war and Grant did that.The allies won through uninterrupted supply lines and industrial capacity (think US)in WWII but a win is a win.