Following the Confederate victory at Sharpsburg (September 17, 1862), General Robert E. Lee is left with a choice. Either continue northward toward Philadelphia, or attempt to capture Washington. Meeting with his Corps commanders, Lt. General Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson and Lt. General James Longstreet, Lee is persuaded by Jackson to attack Washington.
The plan was simple, Jackson would swing his Corps around Washington and attack from the rear, while Longstreet and some Twenty thousand additional troops as well as his own ten thousand attacked from the South.
The result was exactly as Jackson predicted. With a simultaneous two pronged attack, Union General McClellan refused to engage the entirety of The Army of the Potomac, convinced that more Confederate troops were on their way. On October 11, 1862, Union President Abraham Lincoln is forced to retreat to Philadelphia. On Lincoln's trail, is McClellan.
The capture of Washington is enough for Great Britain to force both side's to sue for peace. The Treaty of Paris of 1863, established the Confederate States of America as a independent nation. The Union was forced to give up Maryland, Kentucky and both the New Mexico and Arizona Territories.
What do y'all think? Is this a believable scenario?
The plan was simple, Jackson would swing his Corps around Washington and attack from the rear, while Longstreet and some Twenty thousand additional troops as well as his own ten thousand attacked from the South.
The result was exactly as Jackson predicted. With a simultaneous two pronged attack, Union General McClellan refused to engage the entirety of The Army of the Potomac, convinced that more Confederate troops were on their way. On October 11, 1862, Union President Abraham Lincoln is forced to retreat to Philadelphia. On Lincoln's trail, is McClellan.
The capture of Washington is enough for Great Britain to force both side's to sue for peace. The Treaty of Paris of 1863, established the Confederate States of America as a independent nation. The Union was forced to give up Maryland, Kentucky and both the New Mexico and Arizona Territories.
What do y'all think? Is this a believable scenario?