Navarro
Well-known member
Interesting idea here, here's my take on it:
The lack of added strategic depth, the arms industry of the Tredegar ironworks, a large amount of soldiers, and one of the best military minds of the period all combine to bring the Confederacy down that much earlier, lacking most of what they had that enabled them to put up such a fight for so long and mitigate their inherent strategic disadvantages. Possibly no Emancipation Proclamation; though this still won't delay the end of slavery by much most likely. Longest term effects are in US politics, as VA is a larger, blood-Red state to this day. I'm not sure if this swings any elections though.
So, yeah, they weren't really negotiating in full good faith, but it does leave open the strange "what if" potential for "what if Virginia (somehow) hadn't seceded"...
The lack of added strategic depth, the arms industry of the Tredegar ironworks, a large amount of soldiers, and one of the best military minds of the period all combine to bring the Confederacy down that much earlier, lacking most of what they had that enabled them to put up such a fight for so long and mitigate their inherent strategic disadvantages. Possibly no Emancipation Proclamation; though this still won't delay the end of slavery by much most likely. Longest term effects are in US politics, as VA is a larger, blood-Red state to this day. I'm not sure if this swings any elections though.