<r> The real danger was that Confederate military success would lead to Britain and France recognizing&nbsp;the Confederacy's right to exist. This would entitle the Confederacy to some rights and priveledges not extended to mere rebels. Following recognition, Britain, France and perhaps Austria or ...

<t> The only example I can think of right now is the 'Evacuation of Corinth'. Beauregard retreated from Shiloh to Corinth and dug in, followed by Halleck's army. Of a possible 70,000 the Southern army lost 20,000 to wounds and disease and finally had to evacuate the town because of disease and lack ...

<t> As I see it the Union conducted seaborn invasions for three different purposes:<br/>
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1) to take and hold bases for the blockading fleet (Port Royal)<br/>
2) to close ports as part of the blockade (North Carolina sounds, Fort Pulaski off Savannah, failed attacks on Charleston)<br/>
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<t> Disease was prevalent in newly-mustered units. Two reasons: green troops didn't take care of sanitary issues and people from different areas brought their local diseases with them, infecting people who had no previous exposure. As the Sanitary Commissions and the better officers enforced camp ...

<t> There were record cotton crops in the years leading up to the War, so manufacturers had almost a year's supply of cotton on hand when the War started. The real reason for the labor layoffs and idle looms in England was a glut of cotton textiles on the market, so the cotton shortage didn't matter ...

<t> No, there's a great difference in marching on a Roman road and riding horseback on a muddy country lane.<br/>
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Fifteen miles isn't a bad scouting range (a fifteen-mile range is a thirty-mile round trip), but I would think a courier on horseback could ride a lot farther than fifteen ...

<t> The shock for the North was that Shiloh produced more casualties than the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican American War and the Indian Wars to date... COMBINED. That was why Grant received so much bad press ('butcher', 'drunkard' - neither strictly true) and lost command of the ...

<r> "The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War", Major George B Davis, Leslie J Perry and Joseph W Kirkley.<br/>
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Includes ordinance survey maps of everything south of the Mason Dixon and west through Texas as well as detailed maps of battlefields and campaigns. interestingly ...

<r> Given how rapidly the Union increased its navy I think you have two choices:<br/>
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1) give the Union the ability to quickly build new fleets and start the game with 20-30 points worth of ships, and make construction of new ships cheap and quick<br/>
2) give the Union at least 3 fleets at ...

<t> The Union Navy comprised different ships for different jobs, using deep-water frigates and sloops for heavy combat power (New Orleans, Mobile Bay) and everything from heavily-armed ferryboats to purpose-built shallow-draft double-enders for close-in blockade work. Some of these 'small-boys' were ...