Snake Featherston
Banned
The scenario of this battle is as follows: Jefferson Davis, due to paying more attention to the East than the West decides to give Braxton Bragg clear authority over Edmund Kirby-Smith, Forrest, and Morgan. Bragg, making good use of his opportunities starts his campaign off with a Battle of Richmond that's as clear a victory as IOTL, and with a larger army fights the Army of the Ohio which as per OTL has Jefferson Davis murder Bull Nelson, the failed attempt to remove Buell, inexperienced soldiers of whom most have yet to actually fight, and a collapse in morale and discipline from the rank of army commander on down. Bragg fights a battle near the Chaplin Hills using poisoned water wells to draw in the whole Army of the Ohio, and with his larger force wins a victory that would be the most smashing victory the CSA has won up to that point in the war, on Kentuckian soil.
So what really does happen then? The CSA never had a chance to take over Kentucky, as Chaplin Hills was a CS victory at a tactical level IOTL anyhow. Bragg's army still doesn't have the *food* to stay in Kentucky for any length of time, but with a victory on that scale, what happens to the overall US strategic picture? To the Confederacy's? For that matter what happens to Braxton Bragg as like Chickamauga this would technically outdo in scale any of Lee's victories won to this time in the East.
So what really does happen then? The CSA never had a chance to take over Kentucky, as Chaplin Hills was a CS victory at a tactical level IOTL anyhow. Bragg's army still doesn't have the *food* to stay in Kentucky for any length of time, but with a victory on that scale, what happens to the overall US strategic picture? To the Confederacy's? For that matter what happens to Braxton Bragg as like Chickamauga this would technically outdo in scale any of Lee's victories won to this time in the East.