1864

Title is the question. I was inspired by playing the 1864 mod on the New Campaign Trail. OTL the Civil War began to turn heavily in the Union's favor in 1864, particularly when Sherman captured Atlanta. The Democrats nominated George McClellan, a pro-Civil War Democrat, but had a Copperhead...

Preface: “We know of Jubal Early’s role from Bull Run to Fisher’s Hill, or do we? How can we explain his rise from mere regimental to corps and independent army commander? Was he a professional soldier because he went to West Point, or was his prewar duality of soldier and lawyer simply...

In 1863, Confederate general Stonewall Jackson famously died of wounds sustained in a friendly fire incident at the Battle of Chancellorsville. What's less well known is the fact that James Longstreet nearly suffered the same fate a year later and only four miles away. At the Battle of the...

29 November, 1864, 5:30 p.m. Columbia Pike North of Spring Hill, Tennessee Darkness was drawing nearer by the minute and the windy late November afternoon was rapidly drawing to a close. What Lieutenant General Alexander P. Stewart could make out through his field glasses filled him with...

Idea and PoD: In late July, 1864, Confederate Captain Henry Behan sent a proposal for a concentrated campaign effort in the Trans-Mississippi-Theatre directly to President Jefferson Davis. The proposal became known as the 'Behan Letter' and was never implemented. It was grandiose and ambitious...

Fort Grant Gathersburg, Maryland Thursday, December 1, 1864 Fort Grant was a new camp built to hold the prisoners taken after the Battle of Washington and subsequent siege. It had been built quickly by people who were not inclined to wish the best for those imprisoned inside it...

The Valley and Beyond (Civil War TL) In the beginning of May 1864, Union Brigadier General George Crook and his Army of the Kanawha entered the southwestern region of Virginia via the Appalachian Mountains as part of Ulysses S. Grants spring offensive to wear down the Confederacy in a war of...

Say the Democratic Party in the 1864 election splits with the Pro-War faction supporting George McClellan and the Copperheads running their own candidate. Now in OTL Lincoln won the election in a landslide and gained a majority in both the House and the Senate, so a split Democratic party is...

What if Robert E. Lee, the Confederate States' most famous general during the American Civil War, had been shot atop his horse in one of the engagements of the Siege of Petersburg in 1864? If i'm not mistaken, he charged alongside his cavalrymen at the Battle of Chaffin's Farm in September, so...

I'm aware that many people here aren't very familiar with the history of Paraguay. But before 1870, Paraguay was the Prussia of South America. Paraguay had a phenomonal military for it's size in matters of both quantity and quality. It had infrastructure surpassing that of it's larger neighbors...