Who's making up "FACTS" now:

"70,000 men in the South would have had to face ~500,000 armed pro-Union supporters firmly established in the North"

Are you seriously suggesting that every protestant man, woman and child would have taken up arms. What are the babies going to do, hit someone over the head with their rattle.

"NINE OUT OF EVERY TEN MEN CAME BACK ALIVE"

Care to give us the real figures for the number of Irish who survived. They don't make very good reading do they.