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To: Metacomet who wrote (227299)	7/5/2013 6:19:56 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541851

Mostly a game geared toward those with a historical bent" Books geared to those who prefer bent history... The Southern Victory Series or Timeline-191 are both fan names given to a series of author Harry Turtledove's " alternate history" novels, including How Few Remain as well as the Great War, American Empire, and Settling Accounts groups of historical fiction series. The name is derived from Robert E. Lee's Special Order 191, which detailed the Confederate States' Army of Northern Virginia's invasion of the Union through the border state Maryland, in September 1862, during the American Civil War. The divergence occurs when three common soldiers from Union forces do not find a copy of Special Order 191, wrapped around three cigars, mistakenly left on a former CSA camping ground from the day before near Best's Field, southeast of Frederick, Maryland on September 10, 1862, as they did in actual history and passed it along to their superiors where it went up the chain-of-command to commanding General George B. McClellan of the Army of the Potomac, who was in slow pursuit and trying to ascertain Lee's future movements, and who said "If I can't beat Bobby Lee, knowing all this, then I'm not a general". The subsequent series of novels detail the consequences of this "alternative historical scenario" until World War II in 1944 in the alternate world. en.wikipedia.org

To: Metacomet who wrote (227299)	7/6/2013 9:58:06 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Respond to of 541851

Mostly a game geared toward those with a historical bent You are incapable of empathy Historical analysis is what it is, one's view of the facts is always colored by what one brings to that table. In this case, I would argue that a more peaceful and moderate south would have emerged from a non-civil war past---which would have been a better society for those within it--and for us as a nation. Not a premise totally devoid of compassion, No? ...a common flaw in white conservatives I do not consider myself such and I think you are speculating--not that I'm not above such also.