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I've read Turtledove's novels based in TL-191 and find more than a few problems (at least, problems in my mind). So, I've deceide to improve it and ask for help in fleshing it out.

The POD is the same. Lee's "lost orders" are not lost. Lee crosses into MD and PA with his army in the fall of 1862 and essentially proceeds along the lines he followed IOTL in the summer of 1863. He makes it to Harrisburg and sets up an occupation against which McClellan's Army of the Potomac bashes itself to bits.

Three things are going for Lee here. 1) He has a stronger, better equipped army than IOTL at Gettysburg; 2) He has Stonewall Jackson with him; and 3) He employes Longstreet's "tactical defensive/strategic offensive" viewpoint.

Turtledove refers to the "Battle of Camp Hill" in his novels. Does anyone know if Camp Hall, PA (southwest of Harrisburg) IS a likely site for such a CS victory? Also, does anyone know of one or two other sites where southern victories could occur in the same area?

Turtledove also pictures the Union Army of the Ohio being pulled out of Tennessee to face Lee and also being destroyed. Where might such a battle occur?

Congressional elections in autumn, 1862, go heavily against the Republicans and an armistice is reached in December of that year. Riots in Washington, DC and MD cause the Federal government to flee, re-settling in NYC (Philly being too close to the front). Maryland secedes, with three westernmost counties joining the on-going conferences in Wheeling of Unionist northwestern counties of Virginia, trying to form a new Federal state. Cecil Co., MD asks to join Delaware. Sussex Co., DE secedes to form "Free State of Sussex". Kentucky also secedes.

OK. I think that's enough for now. Let me know what you think and, especially, bring up any info that would casue any of these things to be impossible. I understand that in AH, anything I want to have happen CAN happen, but I want it all to be as plausible as possible as well!

Thanks!:)
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