re: Who was the Unions greatest soldier?

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Southern baws had more heart

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There was certainly a lot of truth to the whole suggestion that the average Confederate was worth about 7 Yankees - that was likely pretty close in 1861 and, maybe, into 1862. But, by 1863, it was much closer to even.

And Yankee generals got better (meaning the terrible generals they started the war off kept getting fired and eventually replaced with better generals).

But, wars aren't really won on the battlefield, they're just fought there. Wars are won on the farms producing food, factories producing guns, arms, boots, ammunition, etc. And the Yanks produced more than they could use.

By the Spring of 1865, the Union Army had more troops in Colored regiments than the Confederate Army had in all regiments.

:letthatsinkin: