[central_va]

Joe, the Southern strategy from Sumter on wards was a forced settlement after a stalemate. That is fact. You are a product of some real bad education I guess.

With a small industrial base, a pretty good Union Naval blockade choking the CSA and out numbered 3:1 do you really think the people of the South are that dumb to think that they could invade/conquer/occupy the North?

I think what is going on is that history is written by the victors and they want to portray the North in this existential perilous fight against a Southern invasion which is preposterous, funny and exactly the opposite of what actually happened.

[BroJoeK]

central_va: "Joe, the Southern strategy from Sumter on wards was a forced settlement after a stalemate.
That is fact.
You are a product of some real bad education I guess. "

Once again, you're playing with definitions of words.
What you are here calling "stalemate" most Confederates & Unionists would have called "Confederate victory".

central_va: "do you really think the people of the South are that dumb to think that they could invade/conquer/occupy the North"

They certainly did invade Union states & territories, conquered some parts and occupied as long as they could.
Here, yet again, is the list:

1. Maryland
2. Pennsylvania
3. West Virginia
4. Ohio
5. Indiana
6. Kentucky
7. Missouri
8. Kansas
9. Oklahoma
10. New Mexico
11. Arizona
12. Colorado -- guerillas
13. California -- guerillas
14. Vermont -- bank robbers

That's 14 Union-Northern states & territories suffered Confederate military operations, some very successful, others not so much.
Sure, you may call that "stalemate", but Confederates considered every battle won a victory, and expected victories would lead to favorable peace terms.
Favorable terms would have won at least some of those states & territories including:

1. Kentucky
2. Missouri
3. Oklahoma
4. New Mexico
5. Arizona
6. West Virginia
7. Maryland

So now central_va wishes to define that as "stalemate" but I'm saying that would be a huge Confederate victory and virtual destruction of the United States.

Like I said, you're just playing with definitions of words.