Solroc
Banned
I have one TL in the drawing board:
For Great Justice (I know, stupid meme but great tentaive title)
Essentialy like Turtledove's "Must and Shall", but under different circumstances and perhaps grimdark in some accounts.
POD: starts with Special Orders 191 not being lost by an unattentive Confederate soldier. This makes Antietam on September 1862 more shorter and bloodier, but becomes Lee's phyrric victory as Lee splits his battered ANV into two to defeat the AotP remnant that retreats to Camp Hill with his larger force persuing McClellan in D.C. This (unsurprisingly) becomes a great disaster for Lee as both battles are lost with most or all of the ANV dead or captured and with him being captured or killed. What follows are:
-Emancipation Proclaimation is issued earlier with the destruction of the ANV confirmed
-An assassination attempt on Lincoln in 1863 by Confederate soldiers or pro-South sympathizers succeeds
-Several U.S. Generals die, including Grant
-leaving George H. Thomas to be the General-in-Chief of the Union Armies, who proceed to take Sherman's "March to the Sea" doctrine on a bit grander scale as vengeance
-War ends in late 1864-early '65 with a revanchist President replacing Hamlin (Edwin Stanton is one possibility, but I'm not sure how plausible it would be)
-and a very brutal 'Reconstruction'
Obviously I have more details to research and cover, but that's the general idea. I've already discussed this idea with Snake and Elfwine.
For Great Justice (I know, stupid meme but great tentaive title)
Essentialy like Turtledove's "Must and Shall", but under different circumstances and perhaps grimdark in some accounts.
POD: starts with Special Orders 191 not being lost by an unattentive Confederate soldier. This makes Antietam on September 1862 more shorter and bloodier, but becomes Lee's phyrric victory as Lee splits his battered ANV into two to defeat the AotP remnant that retreats to Camp Hill with his larger force persuing McClellan in D.C. This (unsurprisingly) becomes a great disaster for Lee as both battles are lost with most or all of the ANV dead or captured and with him being captured or killed. What follows are:
-Emancipation Proclaimation is issued earlier with the destruction of the ANV confirmed
-An assassination attempt on Lincoln in 1863 by Confederate soldiers or pro-South sympathizers succeeds
-Several U.S. Generals die, including Grant
-leaving George H. Thomas to be the General-in-Chief of the Union Armies, who proceed to take Sherman's "March to the Sea" doctrine on a bit grander scale as vengeance
-War ends in late 1864-early '65 with a revanchist President replacing Hamlin (Edwin Stanton is one possibility, but I'm not sure how plausible it would be)
-and a very brutal 'Reconstruction'
Obviously I have more details to research and cover, but that's the general idea. I've already discussed this idea with Snake and Elfwine.