Cleburne to the East 1864

Luke Freet

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A while ago, I read Dixie Victorious, and I can't remember the author for this particular scenario, but ome of its scenarios involved sending Cleburne's division plus cavalry (probably meaning a division and a battalion respectively) from the Army of Tennessee to join Early's Army of the Valley.
Wanna know how much of an impact that would have on the Valley Campaign.
Personally, given Joe Johnston will fight a defensive withdrawal no matter if he has enough troops or not to acheive tactical victories, letting him keep another division would be a waste.


(Btw, in the scenario, the author makes a jump to say during the Fort Steven Skirmish Lincoln is killed by a lucky sniper; also, the author neglects to mention Stephen Ramseur, while he mentions every other division commander)
 
Ironically if Cleburne's division was in Early's valley campaign it would be the ideal situation to get Lincoln killed by a sniper; Cleburne had a copy of the Hythe Musketry manual and used it, so his division was much better than average at long ranged fire. It's improbable to have Lincoln specifically singled out, but you could quite plausibly have Cleburne's men sniping out everyone on the battlements over the course of ten minutes or so.
 
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