I feel like the only modern touch that would be added would be so we can relate to these values- and I don't think many relate to the confederacy. Maybe a breakdown of our modern class structure? Although without slaves.
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Again, you are presuming the efficacy of guns in a firearms context is greater than the efficacy of contact weapons in a context without firearms and that just isn't correct. By way of example, finding themselves in a non-firearms environment dealing with being massively...
...outnumbered, Spanish conquistadors found their swords&pikes far more useful than their matchlock firearms & relied on contact weapons over missile weapons. On this point, see J.F. Guilmartin, "The Cutting Edge" in K.J. Andrien and R. Adorno, Transatlantic Encounters (1991).
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wondering what Russian peasant ratios were as well. In pitched warfare I do not doubt Spartan spears crushed rebellions, captured slaves and maintained order, that isn't my point.
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I'm considering the average day to day life where 50 slaves overwhelm 1 slave owner. It happened in the South and if the treatment was bad enough would have happened in Sparta
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In practice, ancient armies of heavy infantry (armored, with contact weapons) could achieve casualty ratios against fleeing or lightly armored enemies well in excess of what is typical in a firearms-on-firearms context because swords do not need to be reloaded...
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...and metal body armor offers higher degrees of protection against fists and sticks than any kind of body armor offers against bullets. E.g. Battle of Marathon (490), casualties are c. 33:1 Pydna (168), c. 200:1 Magnesia (190) 151:1
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