So I have been thinking on a Civil War timeline where instead of Colonel Edward D. Baker losing the Battle of Ball's Bluff, Virginia and dying at Potomac Rivers' edge, he is triumphant and doesn't die. Any thoughts? Please, no ASB's!
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I was kicking around an idea for a major campaign in Texas, with the POD being that Butler actually sends a couple of regiments to Galveston in November 1862 instead of 260 9 month militia, thus the Federals hold on to Galveston.
Still mostly on the general idea stage, but it would be different I hope.
Still mostly on the general idea stage, but it would be different I hope.
A victory at Ball's Bluff would probably butterfly the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War away and obviously have Baker and 1000 Union troops remain as Union assets.
However there is still the question of how the Union would win the Battle of Ball's Bluff.
The Union objective is to destroy an 'unguarded' camp. As it turns out, there was no camp. The only difference Baker could make was to make a reconnaissance of the soon-to-be battleground rather than supervise the crossing of the 1st California. Even before Col. Baker's death, things were starting to go very downhill for the Union troops at Ball's Bluff. Col. Baker did not seem to have much of an impact in the fighting and seemed quite willing to die in battle given his previous quotes.