DBWI: Stonewall Jackson dies before Gettysburg

One of the local college kids was into the coffee shop where I work this morning, finishing up a paper on Gettysburg. He had an interesting premise: what if Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson had died of his wound at Chancellorville rather than at Culp's Hill?

Anybody want to take a swing at that one?

Could Lee have won at Gettysburg without Stonewall there to seize the high ground?
 
One of the local college kids was into the coffee shop where I work this morning, finishing up a paper on Gettysburg. He had an interesting premise: what if Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson had died of his wound at Chancellorville rather than at Culp's Hill?

Anybody want to take a swing at that one?

Could Lee have won at Gettysburg without Stonewall there to seize the high ground?

Interesting premise. I believe Harry Turtledove & Jerry Davidson wrote a whole series around that back in the early '90s, based off of John Elmore's "American History" semi-satirical AH. IOTL, the Civil War lasted until June 1866 but Abe Lincoln survived his assassination attempt in Indianapolis that September(His VP, John Fremont, became the 17th U.S. President, and served two full terms, 1868-1876, followed by Thomas Hendricks, and then Sam Tilden after he switched to the Republicans, though he died in 1881 after being shot in Richmond, former capital of the C.S., succeeded by VP U.S. Grant), though a rump CSA, although minus Virginia and eastern Tennessee(Nashville included), survived until April 1884. Here, the tradeoff is, the war ends in 1865 with the CSA breaking apart right away but with Lincoln dying just 5 days later at Ford's Theatre in D.C., at the hands of John Wilkes Booth(whom, ironically, became this country's 21st president in 1884.).

Other than what Turtledove and others have speculated, though, I got nothing right now.
 
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