Quote Originally Posted by Zolem View Post
Actualy you have that backwards. Lee had the numbers which gave the South an advantage in the early war, but he sqandered them with bad tactics which is what enabled Grant to turn the war around...so Ansom is kinda like Lee with the numbers but poor tactics and Parson is Grant who's forced into teh defensive and needs a Geteysburg to urn the war around.
While the Confederacy started the war with more, and better trained, troops, it did not have the manpower or industrial base to replace losses. The Union did, and Grant was the first general willing to use that to its fullest advantage.