Hors Du Combat

[Stiles/Akin]

150 yrs. ago today, June 7, 1868: In Atlanta, GA, this week's "Intelligencer" re-prints this article from the "Louisville Courier" testing the military abilities of General Grant: "Grant, on assuming command May 4, 1864, had of effective men, besides the reserve, when he crossed the Rapidan 125,000….Lee, at the same date had an effective force of 52,000…….Grant's reinforcements up to the battle of Coal Harbor, June 8, were 97,000…..Lee's reinforcements up to the same date, ...were 18,000…..Grant's total force, including reinforcements, was 222,000……….Lee's total force, including reinforcements, was 70,000……..Returns to their respective Governments showed that when both armies had reached the James, June 10, the number of Grant's army that had been put "hors du combat" was 117,000……Up to the same date, the number of Lee's men who had been put "hors du combat" was 19,000……the two armies then met in front of Petersburg…………We have been at some pains to ascertain and verify these figures, and we vouch for their substantial accuracy. We shall take good car that they do not escape the notice, nor slip the recollection of the country. We cheerfully concede to General Grant the merit of success; but it is right that the country should know the terrible cost at which that success was purchased."……………………….

 

[OpnCoronet]

Looks to me, like more confederate gainsaying, trying to prove, the csa only lost the war because they were vastly outnumbered.

 

[1NCCAV]

Looks to me, like more confederate gainsaying, trying to prove, the csa only lost the war because they were vastly outnumbered.

The Confederate Army lost the war because it was beaten on the battlefield. Are you saying that superior Union numbers had nothing to do with the Union victory?

 

[OpnCoronet]

The Confederate Army lost the war because it was beaten on the battlefield. Are you saying that superior Union numbers had nothing to do with the Union victory?

I am saying that the difference, in results between McClellan and Grant, was not in how big their Army was(or how small Lee's was).