Snake Featherston
Banned
In the OTL battle, the Union failed to unite McClellan and Pope's forces. Suppose McClellan decides to ship his forces to join Pope's forces before Lee could react, as he had an opportunity to. Suppose that at Second Bull Run, instead of facing Pope alone with 50,000 men, he has Pope and McClellan with 140,000 men. I fail to see how, unless the two generals f*ck up worse than either did alone in OTL, Lee can beat an army that nearly outnumbers him three to one.
How does this affect the Virginia campaign? If McClellan for once in his life can pull a fast one on Lee, Lee will be in dutch. His 50,000 will have to find a good position from which to bleed out this army. Might the OTL Second Bull Run campaign become an early Fredericksburg? Or could the Army of Northern Virginia get smashed to bits by sheer weight of numbers like in the Eastern Front of World War II? And if the two armies beat Lee, what happens to the Confederacy? Would the capital move perhaps to Atlanta?
How does this affect the Virginia campaign? If McClellan for once in his life can pull a fast one on Lee, Lee will be in dutch. His 50,000 will have to find a good position from which to bleed out this army. Might the OTL Second Bull Run campaign become an early Fredericksburg? Or could the Army of Northern Virginia get smashed to bits by sheer weight of numbers like in the Eastern Front of World War II? And if the two armies beat Lee, what happens to the Confederacy? Would the capital move perhaps to Atlanta?