Well, I don't pretend to be one of our super-experts in the Civil War, but I'll give my knowledge a shot as far as it goes:
True. Of course, so did Halleck in Cairo, Buell in Cincinnati, Burnside in Annapolis, Butler wherever-his-camp-was-prior-to-NOLA, and many others.
Eh, partially at best...
So, IRL I will be on vacation for a week, away from all of my reference books, so will not post Part 6 until after that. Already this has become far more than a 1-week project, but I am committed to see it to the end of the war.
For those interested, here are a couple of the maps I have been...
Part 5: Not Vicksburg
Or: The differing analyses of William Starke Rosecrans
It was supposed to be at Vicksburg. With high bluffs overlooking a U-turn in the Mississippi river, ridges and watercourses protecting just about every land approach route, caverns and crevices to protect civilians and...
Part 4: The Heartland Campaign
Or: I swear I’m not making Thomas a Mary Sue; Timeline U is just repackaged OTL
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Part 3: Slow Summer Moves
Or: The butterflies are really going now, so parallelism becomes less regular
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Timeline U: April 10, 1862
Reaction in the...
Thanks for the support! I'm glad you are finding these TLs to your liking and level of detail. I will say that, as we go forward and things increasingly diverge from OTL, I may or may not keep up quite this level of detail. I mean, I'm certainly trying to track things like "okay, so if this...
Part 2: Shiloh
Or: What a difference 10,001 men can make!
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Timeline U: April 8, 1862
Johnston’s concentration of forces around Corinth had been...
Part 1.5: After Fort Donelson
Or: Gosh, the North really had a lot of generals who could organize, equip, and train an army, but not lead it. Amiright...
Well, at the moment Patrick Cleburne is still in his OTL spot as a brigade commander in Braxton Bragg's forces along the Gulf Coast. But he'll be joining the action soon enough.
Part 1: Fort Donelson
Or: The case for and against Gideon Pillow being the best Union general in the entire war.
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Timeline U: Midday, February 15...
Thank you! I haven't really seen the concept either, and we'll see exactly for how long the parallelism remains. I have ideas but will bow to how the stories unfold to some extent.
Fair point about Grant. I may change the wording, but I always took "mental cursing", especially of one's self...
We all agree, by virtue of being on this site in the first place, that the study of alternate history is not only fun, but that usually ATLs exist for a reason. If we exclude neo-insert-dead-political-view-here TLs, what is left is mainly shining a light on OTL so it can be better understood...
Fair enough then. Those types of starting points can lead to far more diverse scenarios than sticking to a single PoD, and I do look forward to where you are going with this.
A hundred times over yes, my (recently changed) username refers to Chickamauga and extends the homage to Thomas...
My apologies if I have missed this in the posts so far, but what exactly is the PoD for this TL? It has to be something well before the conventions themselves, such that Lincoln and Breckenridge (and possibly others) do not or cannot run.
If any forces are sent west from Virginia in May-June, they will not be following Longstreet's OTL September route, but will rather follow the more direct rail line from southwest Virginia through Knoxville and on to Chattanooga.
I don't know how the capacity of this line compares to the more...