re: Did the South ever really have a chance (Civil War)?

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But the individual Union soldiers were a lot more formidable and courageous than Southern sympathizers would have you believe - in that regard they were the equal of their Southern counterparts. How many times did backwoods and rural men from Michigan, Indiana Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Maine step up when it mattered?

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Yep. In fact if you tour the Gettysburg Battlefield, they'll point out that maybe for the first time Southern troops faced a sizable number of Union soldiers who were themselves from very rural areas and had just as much experience with firearms, etc., as their Southern counterparts.