Recent content by violadog

I typically think of Virginia as a southern state rather then Mid-Atlantic...but you talking about Chuck Robb aren't you?

I think the situation for this may have existed in Colonial Virginia in 1676, that year was the year was the year of Bacon's Rebellion. My understanding of Bacon's Rebellion is that it was pretty much an alliance of blacks and poor whites. So maybe that could somehow be the jumping off point for...

Ah, thanks. I guess that's what you get for posting things at one in morning:) I wonder though if someone in Seward's cabinet won't have exerted the same influence on him that Lincoln did?

Um, I seem to recall somewhere that it in OTL during the Trent Affair Lincoln and Seward were in agreement that the North could only handle "One war at a time", or possibly that it was Seward pushing Lincoln to avoid war with Britian. Therefore it seems like that Seward and his Secretary of...

Hooker definitely had the best opportunity to beat Lee in 1863, his plan for the Chancellorsville campaign was very well worked out. However, if IIRC, by the time Hooker was hit on the head, the Battle of Chancellorsville was already lost, as it occurred the night of Jackson's attack. A better...

I maybe totally wrong about this, but I remember reading somewhere that part of the bad blood between Joe Johnson and Jefferson Davis was because Johnson was the senior officer to leave the Union army, but he was ranked in the Confederate service behind Samuel Cooper, AS Johnson, and RE Lee. I...

If he had gone West in 1862, Joe Johnson would be AS Johnson's second in command, much as Beauregard was. Could Joe Johnson really exert that much influence over his commander? If he couldn't would Joe Johnson have stayed and fought the second day at Shiloh, or would he have tried to withdraw...

Wouldn't the Confederate capital stay in Montgomery, after all it was already there anyway.

It was released last week, or on Monday, not sure which. Point is, it is in bookstores now.

And then Davis would have sacked him. Davis kept appointing non-entities to run the War Department so that he could be personally involved. IIRC he tended to try and run the government like the army, everyone taking his orders. He only allowed other people to run the war when he didn't have any...

IMHO you might also add that at least he was an fairly decent, honest man. He didn't have any major scandals, he didn't involve the US in disastrous wars, through his foreign policy left something to be desired. But overall, he probably have been considered a better president if he had ruled in...

Maybe we don't need to have those voters vote for Dole, so much as against Bill Clinton. Ross Perot got something like 8 million votes in 1992. Perhaps if he had run a stronger campaign in '96 he could have pulled more votes away from Clinton. Another possibility could be that Clinton's affairs...

Excuse me guys, but doesn't this sentence seem to imply that this Duke of Portland is PM and the Charles Fox is in fact in some lesser position and merely a behind the scenes player?

I don't believe that would be a problem. Let's look at Thomas' one independent command at Nashville. True, Thomas' stalling near cost him his command (by nearly I mean his replacement was already on his way). But Thomas was waiting with a reason. First, he knew that further reinforcements for...

While Thomas didn't have the patience of Job, he must have had something close to it. He spent the first three years under the command of the three of the slowest of the slow. Those were Henry Halleck, who took something like three months to march his army twenty miles from Shiloh to Corinth...