OCC - this is my first new thread post so please be gentle and forgive my errors....
World Assumption. - The 'War' ended quickly - there was no emancipation declaration. Compared to OTL casualties were light on both sides and there was little retribution - some land was confiscated and a number of people served jail sentences - a few senior figures were shot. Slavery remained legal but became increasingly un-economical - all future states were non-slave and by the 1950's although slavery was still technically legal in two of the southern states in practice there were no slaves left.
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We know from his writings that President Lee only agreed to serve as commander of the Union Army because he feared what might happen to his home state of Maryland during the southern rebellion. Let us assume that he was actually from Virginia - only a few miles from his actual home and that he had felt the same way about that state.
Who would have commanded the Army of the Potomac? Would they have pulled off the same masterful concentration of force at Manassas and Fredericksburg forcing the rebels to move their capital south?
Would President Lee have commanded the rebel army? Would the war have been shorter / longer?
World Assumption. - The 'War' ended quickly - there was no emancipation declaration. Compared to OTL casualties were light on both sides and there was little retribution - some land was confiscated and a number of people served jail sentences - a few senior figures were shot. Slavery remained legal but became increasingly un-economical - all future states were non-slave and by the 1950's although slavery was still technically legal in two of the southern states in practice there were no slaves left.
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We know from his writings that President Lee only agreed to serve as commander of the Union Army because he feared what might happen to his home state of Maryland during the southern rebellion. Let us assume that he was actually from Virginia - only a few miles from his actual home and that he had felt the same way about that state.
Who would have commanded the Army of the Potomac? Would they have pulled off the same masterful concentration of force at Manassas and Fredericksburg forcing the rebels to move their capital south?
Would President Lee have commanded the rebel army? Would the war have been shorter / longer?
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