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  1. Arnold d.c

    Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    Maaaaybe we should shift this back on topic, let's discuss potential presidential candidates post-Grant: - R.B. Hayes was a compromise pick, a three-time Ohio governor (winning with narrow margins in all) that was not a part of the political machine and was personally honest. Although he is most...
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    Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    Forgot to address this one. Lincoln and the Native Americans is a pretty neglected topic, with only two major books covering it: David Nichols's Lincoln and the Indians: Civil War Policy and Politics (40 years old now) and more recently Michael Green's Lincoln and Native Americans. To summarize...
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    Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    Grant in a Roman toga honestly made for a pretty banger cartoon. There are lots of places for a split: tariff vs. free trade, gold vs free-silver, civil service reform for the 1880s-1900s. I do think a pro-labor Republican party is necessary in that it incentivizes recalcitrant Southerners to...
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    What If…George Thomas Had Marched Through Snake Creek

    Snake Creek Gap makes the Atlanta Campaign much, much easier for the Federals but I don't think the campaign would have ended then and there. As Decisions of the Atlanta Campaign points out, Johnston had three options: attack, retreat, or surrender. Most people assume the latter, but the author...
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    Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    Given Lincoln's survival and Grant's likely presidency, I think the protectionist policy will be maintained. Both were in favor of tariffs and various tariff bills floundered in Congress. That said, there were attempts at tariff reform as early as 1867. David A. Wells was appointed special...
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    Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    Probably the latter. While Old Abe seemed to lean towards labour, Robert was definitely on the side of big business. Unlike his father who grew up as a poor wage earning youth, Robert was a Harvard man who was deeply entrenched in business interests. He had a reputation for being a cold...
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    Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    In terms of Lincoln’s children, he had 4 sons: Robert, Edward, Willie and Tad. Edward already passed away due to tuberculosis prior to the war; Willie passed away due to typhoid fever IOTL and Tad died of pneumonia in 1871. Robert, the only surviving son, was politically involved and strongly...
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    Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    Nope, when he commanded the Department of California, Ord declared the Apache to be “vermin to be killed when met.” The most sympathetic general is surprisingly John Pope, who advocated hard war in Virginia in 1862. I always dismissed him as an arrogant braggart, but Peter Cozzens' biography on...
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    Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    I think he did at an earlier chapter... ah, it was chapter 34 where he was defeated in a battle at Iuka. I always just assumed he was killed or that his career never shot up and he was left in some backwaters/garrison posting. On that note, it does get Grant to be more politically involved in...
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    Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    You mean West Virginia separating itself from Virginia? It is already done; IIRC WV is called Kanawha now.
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    Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    IIRC the letters were written pre-war in the 1840s, when Davis was still a Mississippi Senator. The letters were discovered in August 1863, when a Union raiding party found Jefferson Davis’ paper and books in a Southern plantation. Sherman found the letters while perusing Davis’ papers and...
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    Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    You're right that most offenders don't have to deal with the secession question. Dealing with the perpetrators of mistreatment/massacre of Unionists and USCT along with the supervisors of horrendous POW camps is easy enough. It's mostly the political figures like Howell Cobb and Robert Barnwell...
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    It’s a solid policy, beats having to rely on merchants that will wring them dry and offer a chance to build wealth. That would definitely help the South’s rebuilding. Historically, merchants charged higher interest rates than banks because they themselves were borrowing funds and had greater...
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    Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    It's a possibility, but I expected one of the main figures of the Lost Cause to get his due.
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    Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    IIRC Kirby-Smith has already fled to Mexico, with his army practically mutinying to dissolve itself. The epilogue in 'Until Every Drop of Blood is Paid' states that several civilians and military men were executed: - Wade Hampton : cavalry commander in the Army of Northern Virginia - Jeb Stuart...
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    What if the U.S. pursued an inflationary fiscal policy in the 1870’s?

    As I understand it, it was more than just that. The act basically implied that the U.S. was dropping the gold standard for bimetallism and that by Gresham's Law (bad money will displace good money), the cheaper & overvalued (by the U.S. gov't) silver would become the U.S.' main currency in a...
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    What if the U.S. pursued an inflationary fiscal policy in the 1870’s?

    You raise a good point that I really had not thought of. Analyzing the impact is a bit tricky as the way their monetary system functioned is so very different from ours. Still, IIRC some of the bigger cities that relied on silver such as San Francisco got hit particularly hard by the removal of...
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    Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    Good update! We've seen the better conditions of the freedman vs. OTL building up in the ACW. Now, it's time to develop and actually defend those developments. I assume that more home farms will be formed along with their defending regiments. I'm sure there's plenty of discarded small arms from...
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    What if the U.S. pursued an inflationary fiscal policy in the 1870’s?

    The honest answer is that we don't know. I have not seen any serious attempts by economists to analyze the impact of the Inflation Bill. The prosed addition to the greenback supply was considerable. The main benefactors to this policy would probably be debtors, most notably farmers - whose debts...
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    Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    Chapter 1 already states that one hundred thousand soldiers were left for peacekeeping, which largely lines up with OTL. IOTL, more than 800,000 men had been discharged and another 190,000 by spring 1866. Demobilization was popular and in line with the anti-military disposition . That said, the...
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