![]() Instead, the Confederate army surprises General McClellan and gets a decisive victory over them. In this series, without those orders, McClellan cannot find the Northern Virginia army, so the Battle of Antietam does not take place. However, in the world of Harry Turtledoves Southern Victory series, this Special Order is not found. This order being found has had a great impact on the war, by causing Lees army to be stopped and giving Lincoln a victory to publish the proclamation after. The slight victory was used by Abraham Lincoln to issue out the Emancipation Proclamation, changing the meaning of the US Civil War from succession to slavery and making foreign intervention in favour of the CSA, by the United Kingdom and French Empire, nowhere near likely. The letter was given to Union General McClellan, whose was quite excited to know his opponents plans. In it was information for the movements of the Army of Northern Virginia.Ī copy of this message was found by a Union soldier in a former CSA campsite. ![]()
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