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Alright guys, here it is, I'm trying to not make it look like an ACW Cliche
I'll begin with a shorty story:

“Well pal, it looks like it’s just you, me, and a bunch of Union snipers waiting to kill me.” Grins the Courier as the Horse snorts, the Courier is tasked of giving Lee a message, personally. “Y’know, I reckon, haven’t we thought of getting someone else to cover me in this hell hole?” the horse keeps trotting in the dirt road, hopefully leading to Lee’s Command. The battle in the horizon was just a series of low booms from artillery fire; sometimes the courier could hear a jolt of rifle sounds, but not to close to him.
“Cap’n told me to give the Lee this order, he never told me what it was though, says it was important….” The Courier spaces out and sees a good spot to rest, under a group of trees and rocks, safe from snipers, “Let’s sit down here.” He says as the horses neighs, he gets off the horse and readies his pistol hopefully he won’t see any Yanks, he’s just a Courier.
“Well, should I open it?” he says to the horse as it snorts again, probably saying, “Nah, who knows? It’ll probably be one those troop detachments.” The courier looks down, “Heh, your right, I guess… Hey wait, there’s some cigars on it, I wonder whats that for?” says the Courier who wonders about it and stares at it, saying Special Order No. 191, but the minute he does, a nearby artillery fire goes off, most likely Yankee.
“Lets get a move on, hell, even if this was a detachment order, I don’t want to wander around it, hell, I reckon it could be a major military order.” Exclaims the courier then thinks he should shut it since he’s in nearby Union territory. He gets on his horse (Who is neighing and getting rowdy, wanting to go.” and trots off, but just then in a second, he forgot something, gets down and grabs the order wrapped in cigars. He goes back to the horse and flaps it around at him, which the horse could care less. “Heh, almost forgot.” Smiles the courier and trots off.
“So.” The soldier says, “Suppose I leave it on the ground there, what do you think would happen? Some Union soldiers finding it and think it’s just some stupid order?” The horse snorts and man chuckles “Who knows? At least I didn’t lose it.”

……..

“Nope, can’t find anything here.” Replies the Union scout, “Damn, I swore those snipers saw a Courier down here, but they didn’t which side.” Replies the other scouts who are scouting the trees and rocks, “Well, whoever it was, he got away, damn sunnovabitch.” Says back Scout #1, the two have been searching the area but with no hope, then suddenly a horse appears, a Union Horse. On it appears to be a well known officer, “You men, it’s time we fall back, Lee’s making a damn good offense and we can’t just hold him any longer in this front, I’m sending you to McClellan’s Command, he’ll tell you where to scout next.” Says the officer in his heavy tone, “Yes Sir.” Reply the two Scouts and the horse runs off, “Hey, what do think the guy was holding?” says Scout #2, “Who knows, but all I know is that it’s Lee’s turn to lick us.” Replies Scout #1, and the two walk off.


Divided we fall


Act 1, Year 19th Century



I


In 1862, the ongoing battle in the American Civil War has caused the CSA to enact a plan to win the war. Special Order 191 was to be sent to Robert E. Lee for the plans of the invasion of the Potomac, the courier who was being sent to Lee for the order managed to be successful, and with the threat of a Union Ambush in the road he was travelling. The Battle of Antietam came under Confederate victory, and smashed the Army of the Potomac, by the autumn of 1862, the Confederates captured Washington D.C. which was being evacuated, and much of the Union soldiers retreating, scorched earth the city, so the Confederates won’t have any shelter or resource. The plan failed and nevertheless, burned the rest of D.C. down, along the Senate and many other famous landmarks. Disorganized, General McClellan rounded any remaining troops and defended an area a few hundred miles away from Philadelphia at a town called Gettysburg, it was a very costly battle, and many Union soldiers were caught in hardline advance by the Northern Army, the battle ended in a disaster and in just days, the Confederates approached hard into Philadelphia, which was being the Capital retreat at the time, and captured the city, again the city was burning by the Union, but not as black as the one in D.C.
Abraham Lincoln, had no choice but to relocate it to New York City, with Philadelphia and D.C. taken, it is shown that the war is lost for the Union, to make matters worse, Hannibal Hamlin was killed from a Confederate Artillery on the train he was that was evacuating from Philadelphia, William Seward was selected to be the new V.P. meanwhile, Sherman and Grant give Lincoln a plan that with the moving of Confederate Troops into occupied Pennsylvania and Maryland, many Yankee Civilians defied the CSA Troops and fought in the forests and farms, this prompted the CSA to send any militiamen in Virginia to be sent to the region this left a gap in a small area in the Shenandoah un-noticed, the two convinced Lincoln enough to advance hard into Virginia, burn down any good resourceful places were they go, and if they reach there objective, Burn down Richmond at all costs, in an act of Revenge for what they did to Philadelphia and D.C, the destruction of Richmond would also send the Government in dysfunction for a while.
Sherman was placed as the general to the march, while Grant was placed in charge of defending the Shenandoah and distracting the CSA, the term for the march was recalled as “The Road to Richmond”.
While Sherman was going to Richmond without detection, General Magruder, who was in charge of defending Richmond was told that a Union Army far larger than the size in West Virginia suddenly appeared in Roanoke (Oddly enough, by the time the Union invaded the defenseless gap, the CSA noticed it, and sent any remaining divisions there). Magruder was alerted of it, and was told by Davis to go down there and fight Grant, however Magruder nearly took his whole army to fight, leaving only a few militiamen to defend Richmond, but actually, thanks to diversion, Sherman went through the breach then while only a few miles in Lexington, a group of militiamen spotted him and messaged Richmond, however it was too late, the militia defended and recruited any able men in Richmond, Davis and his cabinet managed to escape from the attack and the surprising force, The Battle in Lexington was at a loss to the CSA, and approached hard at Richmond in just a few days, after relentless fighting with CS Guerillas, the Union reaches Richmond,, fighting from street to street, while in Roanoke, Grant and Magruder were in pitched combat and couldn’t spare any soldiers to Richmond, Sedgwick also in Grant’s command, while boosting morale to troops, a sniper narrowly missed Sedgwick during his speech, this later caused a longer battle due to Union morale, Sherman however was victorious, and burned all of Richmond to the ground like what the Confederates did in Philladelphia and Washington. However this was a Final Victory to the Union, but the situation in the War was going bad for them.
All of the New Mexican Territory (Includes Arizona), was overran by Brig. General Henry Sibley after he won the Battle of Glorieta Pass, who then advanced into Fort Union and Craig and after bribing and convincing Native Americans to help, took over the northwestern section. Kentucky was also conquered by Braxton Bragg, much to Kentuckians delight (Who favored the CSA over the Union); Lincoln although defined as a coward by the British Emissary for doing a Proclamation, nevertheless, ignored him and gave out the Emancipation that still gave Slaves hope that the Union is still a bastion of equality and liberty. Many Democrats denounced it; however Frederick Douglass and many other Republicans and abolitionists and such applauded his decision.
Britain and France however, pressured the Union, they demanded that if the Union doesn’t give up soon, then they will intervene, however they promised that if he surrenders now, they will go back to good relations with each other, on the other hand: Russia, supports the Union and will aide them if they keep fighting. However the decision was final and on November 4th, 1862, the Treaty of the Potomac was signed, giving the CSA full recognition. Giving much of the Core states of the CSA, and also Kentucky and New Mexican/Arizonan Territory
The CSA celebrated for days as much, but the victory for the Union was bitter.
However a few days into the celebration, on November 15th, Jefferson Davis was shot by a Radical-Abolitionist Unionist, and was pronounced dead the next day.
V.P. Alexander Stephens was sworn in President, with John C. Breckenridge as his Running Mate. With Richmond in Ruins, Shenandoah burned, and the Racial and Economic soon to follow, it looks the CSA is heading towards and un-certain future.

See? I told they couldn’t hit an elephant!
~ John Sedgwick

The War is lost, God help us all
~ George McClellan
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