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    James G. Randall's defense of George McClellan--any thoughts?

    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...
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    2xTLIAW: Grant Killed at Fort Donelson

    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...
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    2xTLIAW: Grant Killed at Fort Donelson
    Threadmarks: Part 5: Not Vicksburg

    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...
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    2xTLIAW: Grant Killed at Fort Donelson
    Threadmarks: Part 4: The Heartland Campaign

    Part 4: The Heartland Campaign Or: I swear I’m not making Thomas a Mary Sue; Timeline U is just repackaged OTL U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U Timeline U: Early July, 1862...
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    2xTLIAW: Grant Killed at Fort Donelson
    Threadmarks: Part 3: Slow Summer Moves

    Part 3: Slow Summer Moves Or: The butterflies are really going now, so parallelism becomes less regular U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U Timeline U: April 10, 1862 Reaction in the...
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    2xTLIAW: Grant Killed at Fort Donelson

    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...
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    2xTLIAW: Grant Killed at Fort Donelson
    Threadmarks: Part 2: Shiloh

    Part 2: Shiloh Or: What a difference 10,001 men can make! U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U Timeline U: April 8, 1862 Johnston’s concentration of forces around Corinth had been...
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    2xTLIAW: Grant Killed at Fort Donelson
    Threadmarks: Part 1.5: After Fort Donelson

    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...
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    2xTLIAW: Grant Killed at Fort Donelson

    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.
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    2xTLIAW: Grant Killed at Fort Donelson
    Threadmarks: Part 1: Fort Donelson

    Part 1: Fort Donelson Or: The case for and against Gideon Pillow being the best Union general in the entire war. U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U-C-U Timeline U: Midday, February 15...
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    2xTLIAW: Grant Killed at Fort Donelson

    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...
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    2xTLIAW: Grant Killed at Fort Donelson
    Threadmarks: Introduction / PoD

    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...
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    A House Divided Against Itself: An 1860 Election Timeline

    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...
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    A House Divided Against Itself: An 1860 Election Timeline

    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.
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    Instead of launching Gettysburg Campaign, Lee relieves Vicksburg

    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...
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    John Bell Hood's Charge - A Chickamauga Civil War AU

    I really hate to butt in in this manner. But the more I see of this TL the more it becomes utterly implausible. I have to comment on the scenario as described. Ironically the one part that I think could be made to go even *more* in the Confederacy's favor is the actual battle of Chickamauga...
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    Plausibility Check of Timeline-191 (aka Southern Victory)

    So, in the couple of days I was away, it seems @History Learner has been banned. Apparently I was far too generous in my granting his (?) sincerity in reasoned detail-oriented debate in our post exchanges. I had a few qualms based on a few other posts of his I read but was giving the benefit...
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    Plausibility Check of Timeline-191 (aka Southern Victory)

    And as I have exhaustively cited in reply, if Lee strikes as he planned on the evening of the 18th / day on the 19th, he is launching a frontal attack against at minimum Reno's Union infantry divisions and, considering the most likely butterflies of the PoD needed to get Lee's attack happening...
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    Plausibility Check of Timeline-191 (aka Southern Victory)

    Right. So, in regards to TL-191, I too agree that Camp Hill as stated is wholly implausible, and probably any large Confederate victory given the army's sizes at this time is as well. One thing we haven't mentioned yet is that a very possible butterfly of having no Antietam as in OTL is no...
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    Plausibility Check of Timeline-191 (aka Southern Victory)

    @History Learner , thank you first of all for giving a detailed response. I know of many previous post-ers who, when details are questioned or asked for, immediately start with tangents and broad responses at best, and often strawmen, insults, and the sorts of things that usually derail threads...
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