Hymie Goldberg
Banned
I think that Edgar Allen Poe is the likeliest great American writer to become a brilliant military leader. He actually was a Sergeant Major of artillery before he went to West Point.
Say he doesn't drop out of West Point in 1831. When the War of Northern Aggression is launched he will have spent nineteen years as an officer after rising from private to the highest enlisted rank in only four years. He was also already a published writer Tamerlane and Other Poems, by a Bostonian
Poe would be 51 in 1860.
Does he go North or South when Mr. Lincoln lets slip the dogs of war?
If he goes with the damnyankees, it's likely he could've ascended to command of the Army of the Potmac at some point. Or his artillery routs Jackson at Kernstown.
If he goes with the rebels, maybe his artillery cuts the Union soldiers to shreds (even worse than RL--until the troops, en masse, refuse to go forward anymore) in the Wilderness Campaign.
Napoleon was an artillerist . . . so is Jake Featherston!
Say he doesn't drop out of West Point in 1831. When the War of Northern Aggression is launched he will have spent nineteen years as an officer after rising from private to the highest enlisted rank in only four years. He was also already a published writer Tamerlane and Other Poems, by a Bostonian
Poe would be 51 in 1860.
Does he go North or South when Mr. Lincoln lets slip the dogs of war?
If he goes with the damnyankees, it's likely he could've ascended to command of the Army of the Potmac at some point. Or his artillery routs Jackson at Kernstown.
If he goes with the rebels, maybe his artillery cuts the Union soldiers to shreds (even worse than RL--until the troops, en masse, refuse to go forward anymore) in the Wilderness Campaign.
Napoleon was an artillerist . . . so is Jake Featherston!
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