Snake Featherston
Banned
From: Up With the Star
Initial WI: WI the Confederacy lasted longer in the War of the Rebellion?
POD: Ben Butler refuses to accept Lincoln's invitation to be Vice-President.
As a result of Ben Butler having command of the Army of the James, all of Grant's smaller offensives miscarry, though he defeats Lee in eight weeks and puts him in what seems an oddly early Trench war in Virginia. Sherman, alone of all the sideshows, moves effectively, outflanking Johnson from Rocky Face Gap to Atlanta, and while Grant does very well with trench warfare, almost ludicrously so, Sherman stomps the Hell out of Hood and captures Atlanta.
In an inversion of the end of the War of the Rebellion, the decisive battles that wreck an enemy army happen in the West at Franklin and Nashville, while the Army of Northern Virginia, despite being annihilated and USCT entering Richmond first ends up surrendering instead of being broken in one battle.
The longer war includes an assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson switcherooing from hardcore Radical to radically pro-Southern, the start of a guerrilla warfare campaign President Johnson did not crack down on, while the USA ironically *still* gets stomped by Chief Red Cloud.
Grant proves a similarly progressive President in key ways to OTL but becomes seen as one of the worst Presidents in the history of the ATL, the Southerners write the history of the war, Archduke Maximilian is slain, leading to an Ausgleich, and the Ottomans, without French inclination to help them and ensure control of the Canal actually (but very near victory all the same) lose the war of 1877.
As a result a Great War happens like in our world, but pitting Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottomans against Britain, France, and Russia, with the Kaiser pursuing naval policies similar to those of the Russians in our world, and with an ironic counterpoint that the USA, adopting Dualism (the ATL's likely name for segregation) ends up re-segregating its government under Wilson after TR de-segregated it.
It seems almost a bizarro universe of our world in so many ways.....
Initial WI: WI the Confederacy lasted longer in the War of the Rebellion?
POD: Ben Butler refuses to accept Lincoln's invitation to be Vice-President.
As a result of Ben Butler having command of the Army of the James, all of Grant's smaller offensives miscarry, though he defeats Lee in eight weeks and puts him in what seems an oddly early Trench war in Virginia. Sherman, alone of all the sideshows, moves effectively, outflanking Johnson from Rocky Face Gap to Atlanta, and while Grant does very well with trench warfare, almost ludicrously so, Sherman stomps the Hell out of Hood and captures Atlanta.
In an inversion of the end of the War of the Rebellion, the decisive battles that wreck an enemy army happen in the West at Franklin and Nashville, while the Army of Northern Virginia, despite being annihilated and USCT entering Richmond first ends up surrendering instead of being broken in one battle.
The longer war includes an assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson switcherooing from hardcore Radical to radically pro-Southern, the start of a guerrilla warfare campaign President Johnson did not crack down on, while the USA ironically *still* gets stomped by Chief Red Cloud.
Grant proves a similarly progressive President in key ways to OTL but becomes seen as one of the worst Presidents in the history of the ATL, the Southerners write the history of the war, Archduke Maximilian is slain, leading to an Ausgleich, and the Ottomans, without French inclination to help them and ensure control of the Canal actually (but very near victory all the same) lose the war of 1877.
As a result a Great War happens like in our world, but pitting Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottomans against Britain, France, and Russia, with the Kaiser pursuing naval policies similar to those of the Russians in our world, and with an ironic counterpoint that the USA, adopting Dualism (the ATL's likely name for segregation) ends up re-segregating its government under Wilson after TR de-segregated it.
It seems almost a bizarro universe of our world in so many ways.....