Re: [DL] Re: What happened to the Union? (Spoilers at the End)

["Mr. Christopher McGlothlin, M.Ed." <sosentinel@adelphia.net>]

At 03:10 PM 5/6/2002, Nyarlathothep132@aol.com wrote:
>Thank you, good sir.

         You are most welcome!

>  A quick google search pointed out my ignorance on this subject. Would it 
> be plausible, however, for the NM/AZ territories to be considered part of 
> the Disputed Lands, instead of CSA proper?

         What little law & order they have (the Texas Rangers, mainly) 
answers to Richmond, so no.

>I found the Missouri section. I can certainly accept a mad general as a 
>good reason to switch sides.

         As the author of that section, I am most gratified to receive this 
news.

>Which leads to a follow up question- with the CSA doing so very well and 
>the Union so poorly, how has the political climate within the Union 
>changed? I imagine that they are getting very, very frustrated about 
>losing land to the damn rebels, the blasphemous Mormons, the damn injun's, 
>the accursed British, Grimme's wacko cult...

         Indeed. That's an element I touched upon in _ToT:77_, and Rick 
Dakan & Jack Emmert did a terrific job of fleshing the idea out in _Back 
East: The North_.

>So after the war with the CSA winds down, what stops the USA from 
>re-taking the Sioux Nations and Deseret? (Not to mention a reckoning with 
>Canada.) Without their forces spread so thinly, the Union should be a 
>force to reckon with...

         Again, force is not what's limiting the Union at this moment in DL 
history: it's war-weariness. After admitting defeat to the Confederacy 
after 17 years of war, the Yankees are NOT going to be in much of a mood to 
continue a fight against anyone, save for liberating Detroit (Please 
forgive me, all, for bringing THAT up).

>Last two questions...






Spoiler Time....








>1. Someone mentioned Davis' death- when did that happen?

         Fall of 1878, in _Dead Presidents_.



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