Recent content by River of Death

Fair enough then. Those types of starting points can lead to far more diverse scenarios than sticking to a single PoD, and I do look forward to where you are going with this. A hundred times over yes, my (recently changed) username refers to Chickamauga and extends the homage to Thomas...

My apologies if I have missed this in the posts so far, but what exactly is the PoD for this TL? It has to be something well before the conventions themselves, such that Lincoln and Breckenridge (and possibly others) do not or cannot run.

If any forces are sent west from Virginia in May-June, they will not be following Longstreet's OTL September route, but will rather follow the more direct rail line from southwest Virginia through Knoxville and on to Chattanooga. I don't know how the capacity of this line compares to the more...

I really hate to butt in in this manner. But the more I see of this TL the more it becomes utterly implausible. I have to comment on the scenario as described. Ironically the one part that I think could be made to go even *more* in the Confederacy's favor is the actual battle of Chickamauga...

So, in the couple of days I was away, it seems @History Learner has been banned. Apparently I was far too generous in my granting his (?) sincerity in reasoned detail-oriented debate in our post exchanges. I had a few qualms based on a few other posts of his I read but was giving the benefit...

And as I have exhaustively cited in reply, if Lee strikes as he planned on the evening of the 18th / day on the 19th, he is launching a frontal attack against at minimum Reno's Union infantry divisions and, considering the most likely butterflies of the PoD needed to get Lee's attack happening...

Right. So, in regards to TL-191, I too agree that Camp Hill as stated is wholly implausible, and probably any large Confederate victory given the army's sizes at this time is as well. One thing we haven't mentioned yet is that a very possible butterfly of having no Antietam as in OTL is no...

@History Learner , thank you first of all for giving a detailed response. I know of many previous post-ers who, when details are questioned or asked for, immediately start with tangents and broad responses at best, and often strawmen, insults, and the sorts of things that usually derail threads...

I am lucky enough to have a hard copy of the book you quoted - "Return to Bull Run - the Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas", by John J. Hennessy - and am taking a look at the section in question. I will try to summarize my skepticism without making my post ridiculously long with...

A point that may be slightly in favor of Reynolds and Meade, plus a few other possibilities: They are from Pennsylvania, and proud of it. From some hints teased in Red's previous posts, Lee's invasion of the North will be significantly more harsh in many ways than iOTL, which was quite harsh...

I must make a couple of comments regarding the details of some of the western battles as stated. The heart of which is: I do not see how alt-Iuka is possible as described. Granting that Price has already secured Iuka and Ord is attacking him, there is very little variation allowed from their...

The thing is, being "a Virginian man through and through" is also a choice. If loyalty to one level of your government would put you in conflict with another level of your government, then whichever one you are supporting you are actively choosing to do so in opposition to the other. And that...

Lee chose to fight for his native state, which in turn chose to fight for slavery - adding one link to the chain may make it more accurate but it is a mere technicality. Winfield Scott made a different choice. So did George Thomas. So did David Farragut. So did Andrew Johnson. So did...

For once Little Mac isn't the only one at fault:). OTL and TTL Sherman are depicted very similarly, regarding both spies and semi-legitimate fears of Confederate numbers. That is what led, OTL, to his being shelved and the department broken up under Halleck and Buell. TTL looks like that...

I see we are both fans of Rhea's series :) My understanding is indeed that Lee originally intended to hold the line of the North Anna itself, and did not realize that Grant was pursuing him so closely (one of his many often-overlooked misjudgments of the campaign). As such he did not expect...