In real life, the course of the American Civil War went much as the Osipov-Lanchester model would have predicted. The Confederate Army won most of the battles, thanks to better Southern marksmanship and horsemanship, as well as better-trained officers and generals. But the North mobilized 2.1 million soldiers against 880,000 Southerners. The Union Army still had to endure heavy casualties; it lost 360,000 soldiers against 260,000 Confederates. But after four years of bloody, bitter struggle, the North ground up the South and won the war.[12]
