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Much like Robert E Lee? In OTL, Lee's offensive campaigns usually failed, often at irreplaceable cost to the Confederacy. Seven Days was a success, but either Malvern Hill and Gaines Mill were each around as costly as Pickett's Charge. Hopefully Beauregard at least gave clearer orders than Lee.

It wasn't until 1902 that Victoria Crosses were awarded posthumously. Great timeline.

A lot of Confederate generals in the west were pretty bad. But Beauregard was one of the Confederacy's best.

Your research definitely shows. As does your bringing balance to a scenario dominated by shouty Trent Warriors who are allergic to facts or balance. On another forum I've encountered someone who thinks that the Union was completely dependent on Canadian horses and grain. I have gotten that...

Interesting divergence. If the US public sees this as Mary Lincoln working herself to death, it would harden views against Britain. It might harden the views of some Confederates against Britain as well- as I recall some of Mrs Lincoln's brothers and brothers-in-law were Confederate officers.

Planning! Finance! Supply! It's so good to see logistics acknowledged in an ATL. I am left with a couple questions, though. 1) What about the Great Lakes? There were some important naval actions on them in the War of 1812 and a few ships built there could make a difference. 2) What about...

Thank you for sharing. Here is the US Navy List from 1860. At the start of the Civil War, the US 42 active ships, plus 48 that were laid up for repair or maintenance. Then they lost all of the ships at the Gosport Naval Yard in Norfolk, Virginia. By the end of 1861, the US Navy had increased...

At first this seemed like too much, too fast, but in ATL Admiral Milne was re-enforced to 33 ships. and it's nice to see acknowledgement that Britain had worldwide interests that needed protecting. They can't just send everything immediately and they will need to bring vessels back into...

Most Trent War ATL's reduce Britain or the United States to "bit characters with zero will of their own", while allowing the side the author worships to ignore friction, logistics, and sometimes even the laws of physics. It's the hivemind versus the potted plant. Canada tends to get ignored as...

That is a possibility, though I'd expect him to be more sympathetic towards Catholics than most. Longstreet was not a particularly religious man until three of his children died of scarlet fever between January 25 and February 1 of 1862 and it was more than a month before the fourth child was...

This is one of the best timelines on the site, but in OTL Longstreet converted to Catholicism in 1877.

Excellent points. Using the numbers History Learner gave about saltpeter and assuming the same powder consumption rates as OTL shows that: The June 1862 reserve of 9.83 million lbs would be reduced to 5.83 million lbs by June of 1863 and run out around July of 1864. The June 1863 reserve of...

A lot of Trent Warriors see their favorite side's ironclads as invincible, but they were actually all experimental and all had flaws. In addition to the problems you mention, HMS Warrior had a deep draft and was very unmanueverable. It was a deep water ship intended to patrol a worldwide empire...

Pinkerton started by assuming an unusually large average size for Confederate regiments (700 IIRC). Pinkerton then added a fudge factor to account for his agents not finding all Confederate regiments. IIRC, Pinkerton generally assumed his agents had found around 50% of Confederate regiments when...

These are not confined to Pre-1900. Win a modern Cannae and you win the war. Destroying an opposing army is much more difficult in actual history than it is is in AH. It also is not an "I win" button. Hannibal lost that war. Capture the enemy capital and you win the war. Napoleon's invasions...