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Can you imagine Lee in command of the Union at the only battle of Bull Run/Manassas? In charge of the union at Antietam and then pursuing the rebels after the battle? Or at Chancellorville, Petersburg?



Several other Virginian officers remained with the Union: Gen. Thomas - "the Rock of Chickamauga", is likely the best known example.

I cannot imagine Lee on the northern side at Antietam since I doubt there was anyone as daring as Lee to try that strategy. I believe Lee would have had his setbacks as well since it was unclear to everyone how to fight that war and his favorite foil, McClellan was still on the Union side - if there had been a more aggressive/confident commander in the Union, we likely would have less regard for Lee.

Stonewall would have been an interesting adversary for Lee. It would be enlightening to see Lee with the incompetent Pinkerton intelligence and not J.E.B. Stuart's reports. A major blow to the South, that is often forgotten, was the loss of Albert Sidney Johnston at Shiloh. He would have been a "handful" had he survived.

I believe that with Lee in the east and Grant in the west the Union would have won the traditional war fairly quickly. No new territory would have had slavery - the main political stumbling block from 1820-1860, but likely no blacks as well - which was the intention of the "Free Soil" advocates. Slavery may have survived into the early 20th century, but those practicing it would have been more and more despised and economically & politically isolated.


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