Now on to Virginia. It looks like the Union has some pretty serious designs on Virginia, since those divisions in Annapolis have been heavily reinforced by the forces that have been stationed in Potomac River. I doubt that the figure of 184,000 is correct, though.
Regardless of the figure, it's clearly an army to be taken seriously, and I need to figure out what it's up to. If it enters Shenandoah my corps there is unlikely to be strong enough to withstand it, since the corps would be outnumbered 2-to-1, it appears. (Plus, that corps has not been upgraded as much as my western forces.) So leaving the corps there is not a good option. If the Union enters Fredericksburg to besiege the forts, I could come in at it from both sides, and I don't think the enemy is going to risk that. The third possibility -- well, other than going through Franklin into Abingdon, which would be a mistake because I could come at it from both directions, too -- is going through Fredericksburg and not stopping, so as to attack the Army of Northern Virginia now that I have sent half its strength to Shenandoah.
My thinking is that if the Union is attacking Fredericksburg or an
empty James River my forts would easily hold out for a turn or two, so the only option that makes any sense is to concentrate all my Virginia forces in one place: Shenandoah, the only province that can be taken in a single turn because it has no forts or city.
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