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America Loses its Own Hearts and Minds

Akagi2 Wrote: Aug 28, 2009 7:54 PM

One more thing...what source are you using that states that Lee had more losses than Grant during the Overland Campaign?--the sources I've seen all show Grant had more, but of course he didn't care as you pointed out he could replace his while Lee could not. Same reason that despite the claims over Fort Pillow the real reason that Grant favored letting the Union POWs rot at Camp Sumtet was that the CSA had forces rotting at Camp Douglas, etc and Grant could replace his men sent there, Lee could not replace his POWs.

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America Loses its Own Hearts and Minds

Every insurgency has a long-term plan. That plan isn't military victory. It's tacit alliance with naysayers or sympathizers from the opposing force who are all too willing to undermine the war effort. Every insurgency is a stalling tactic aimed at the enemy, designed to oust those determined to wage war and install those determined to achieve armistice at all costs.

Even after their defeat at Gettysburg, the Confederacy held out hope that an 1864 Democratic presidential victory would provide them independence. "If we can break up the enemy's arrangements," wrote Robert E. Lee, "he will not be able to...

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