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Hi there! This is Valus36 introducing himself to all those people out there saying that i am really enjoying the site. I also want to contribute to the site by adding my own posts and ideas. I currently have two already started, but the thing is that i wrote them down by hand. One is several pages long, and the other i just started a few months back. Here is the basics for both of them:

#1 i'm exploring what would happen if Jeff Davis died from some type of sickness i early 1863, lets say February. In his place, Judah P Benjamin, the secretary of state somehow becomes president by a fluk. i am exploring how this would effect the war. One of the things to come out of this is that incompetant commanders such as Bragg and Pemberton would be on a short leash. (in other words, if any one of them screws up, the're gone no if ands or buts) Another thing is that in case of emergancy, lets say the federal thrust on richmond before the chancellorsville campaign, the army gains control of everything, meaing that the govenors who hog the state militia, are sol. I'm currently about to finish the Chancellorsville battle where jackson is wounded, but not seriously, A.P. Hill is killed, and Longstreet is trying to hold on at Fredricksburg against Sedgwick:D

#2 In this one, Patrick Cleburne's manifesto on enlisting slaves into the Confederate Army in exchange for their freedom is turned down by Jeff Davis. Instead of throwing it away, Davis keeps it. POD: In early June, after cold Harbor, Lee turns over command temporarly to Longstreet ( In OTL, Longstreet is severly wounded at the Wilderness and doesn't return to the AoNV untill fall. in this atl, longstreet is still wounded, but only out of the fight for a couple of weeks) and goes to Richmond to ask for reinforcemtns from davis. Sometime during this converstation, as davis is cleaning his desk, a peice of paper falls from his desk. Lee picks it up and starts to read it. What is it? Its Cleburne's Manifesto! Lee and Davis then dicuss the paper and although Davis doesn't like the idea, he asks Lee what he thinks. Lee agrees that the slaves should be allowed to fight for the Confederacy in exchange for their freedom because if not, then the south is doomed. Davis sides with Lee and within a couple of weeks, with Lee personally apealing to the congress and threating to resign, the bill passes. This gives the south new life as many slaves join the confederate army, but they would not be ready untill fall (i'd say around late september, early october). October 1864: with their new found strength, the Rebels go on the offensive: In Georgia, where Joe Johnston and William Hardee lure Sherman's army ever deeper into the southern heartland where they plan to destroy it; In Virgina where Robert E Lee builds up his shattered army, he waits to pounce on grant while James Longstreet and Jubal Early attmept to crush sheridan in the valley once and for all; and last but not least in Alabama where John Bell Hood's rejuvenated Army of the Tennessee marchs on Nashville, but there's one catch, Hood takes orders from the army's new commanding general: Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson!:D
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