Conversely if outnumbered you should be husbanding
your scarce manpower.


Well,Total population of Union States was 22,000,000 ,Confederate States only
5,000,000.
Union military forces outnumbered Confederates by more than 2,5 to 1.

So if you follow your way of thinking they should do whatever Union wants them
to do,not they want to do,to conserve their scarce manpower resources.

Heck,I wonder why some states are still issuing license plates "Live free or
Die".logo.

he most common estimates place them at between 20,000 and 28,000
while Union casualties were 23,000. The Confederates were

Most accepted figure is 20000 for Confederates.

He could have if Lee hadnt left 25,000 of them at Gettysburg

Maybe Lee should have listened Longstreet,but even if Lee won at Gettysburg it
would not change much,confederates were hopelessly outnumbered.

Not so, he outmanoevered and outfought the Confederates deep
in their own territory

You seem to repeat revisionist Civil War historian Rhea and trying to
rehabilitate Grant and Sherman.
But its impossible to rehabilate persons whose achievements during Civil War
are limited to terrorizing civilians.

Which makes throwing away lives pointlessly even more stupid.

They only wanted to peacefully secede from the Union,but they were outnumbered
so they had to accept "union by force" option to save lives.

I think EU could be created 65 years ago if Brits and other Europeans accepted
a corporals' "Union by force" proposals and many lives could saved.
So they must be stupid too.

No. Nathan Bedford Forrest was a slaver who murdered his prisoners.
In the 20th century he'd have been executed for war crimes.

Grant was a slaver too.
Grant and Sherman would be the first ones who get convicted in 20th war crimes
tribunal.Besides being a barbarian,Grant was an anti-semite too.

Civil War only ended when Confederates run out of soldiers ,supplies and
everything.
Heck, the "Master of Maneuver" even lost more than 6000 soldier within one Hour
,but he did not have worry about.