lee

With other projects on hiatus, I was inspired to write my own Southern victory TL detailing a Confederate victory in the American Civil War. I chose the same PoD as Turtledove, the infamous Order 191, but things diverge from there. To make certain I wouldn't inadvertently rip off Turtledove's...

Assuming the CSA wins it's independence and survives for at least a century, what would it look like if George Bolling Lee, grandson of general Robert E Lee, was potcs during the 1920's? What I know about about him is that he lived from 1872-1948, he was a gynecologist, and that's pretty much...

Chapter I: Tough times call for tough measures The meeting of the Confederate Cabinet on 18 December 1864 was unusually heated. The main topic of discussion was General John Bell Hood's dispatch of the previous day, which reported the defeat of the Army of Tennessee at the gates of Nashville...

Chapter 1 July 1, 1863, 10:15 a.m. East of Herr's Ridge Gettysburg, Pennsylvania The sun was now steadily rising and the damp moisture of the night finally gave way to the dry warmth of midsummer day. Brigadier General James Jay Archer from Heth's Confederate division pondered what the day...

Let's say Jackson decided on a whim that he didn't really want to go out to check out the state of his troops that faithful night at Chancellorsville. What would change? Well, for one, Gettysburg would have certainly been a Confederate victory. It was lost to them for the main reason that...

Is there a way to salvage Lee's reputation. I know this is tough, he got whipped in West Virginia, failed in the Carolinas and failed in the Peninsula Campaign. He had a good reputation before the war. Is there a way he can look like less of a colossal screw up?

What if Lee attacks Meade at his preferred position at Pipe Creek rather than Gettysburg? :eek: How screwed is Lee?