Desert Kid
2nd Lieutenant
- Joined
- Dec 3, 2011
- Location
- Arizona
To expand on what I said about Birmingham earlier.
There was a similar situation brewing in Southwestern Virginia before/during the war that was affected by the Union's victory.
Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Just across the line from Johnson City, TN and Kingsport, TN and Bristol, TN the "Tri-Cities". Big Stone Gap had large iron deposits and was being looked at for investments in steel production just like Jefferson County, Alabama was.
So, the Tri-Cities could very well become the "Quad Cities" that the Confederate government can put alot of defense investment into. So Washington, Sullivan and Hawkins Counties in Tennessee and Wise County, Virginia may have 50-70,000 each in population.
There was a similar situation brewing in Southwestern Virginia before/during the war that was affected by the Union's victory.
Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Just across the line from Johnson City, TN and Kingsport, TN and Bristol, TN the "Tri-Cities". Big Stone Gap had large iron deposits and was being looked at for investments in steel production just like Jefferson County, Alabama was.
So, the Tri-Cities could very well become the "Quad Cities" that the Confederate government can put alot of defense investment into. So Washington, Sullivan and Hawkins Counties in Tennessee and Wise County, Virginia may have 50-70,000 each in population.