Mike Scholl -> RE: the blitz (12/30/2006 6:17:50 PM)
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ORIGINAL: General Quarters After Manassas, Beauregard proposed, with Johnston's backing, to take the army through Pittsburgh and Erie and cut the Union in half. Had the South be able to do this -- and HOLD it -- it certainly would have had a huge impact on the economy and politics as well as logistics. Perhaps the game should include some bonus for the South, or penalty to the North, if it is able to do this. The "minor problems" being that the South could barely feed its Army at Manassas..., and that marching off over the mountains to Western Pennsylvania would leave the still-superior-in-numbers Union forces in Washington with nothing between them and Richmond and a shorter distance to go... So while the bedraggled and starving Southern Army staggers down the hill towards Pittsburg, the Union takes Richmond and "hangs Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree". Great idea! Wonder why they didn't try it?
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