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US Grant despite what he later said had some southern sympahties. His wife was the daughter of a Missouri slaveholder who was pro-confederate. Grant himself owned a slave for a while, and his wife continued to have personal slaves until the end, they even used to come to his HQ when he was general in chief.

Lets say that his father-in-law convinces his (Grants) wife, to lean on him to join the South. Grant had been rebuffed in his efforts to join the army again (by McClellen) in OTL and lets say that he accepts.


How would this change history. Grant was possibly the best tactical general of the war, maybe the other Southern generals were his superiors, but strategically and in logistics he was in a class of his own. Incidentally, the two areas where confederate generals came up short.

A Grant in grey, how dose he engage in the war for the Confederacy? Strategically, he might do a reverse of what he did as a Union general, which is to control as much of the Missisippi as he could, he would have been a lot better than Lee and the rest in supplying his men.
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