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<span class="mu-r">I wish I was in Dixie, hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie’s Land I’ll take my stand
To live and die in Dixie!</span>
America burns, brother fighting brother and sister fighting sister all along the Mason-Dixon line. Clashes of mind, steel, powder, and magic light up these Disunited States as Washington and Richmond duel over and over for a decisive victory.
But ever since the Battle of Manassas, it’s become crystal clear to almost everyone in the country that any promises of being “home by Christmas.”
That’s proven more each passing minute, as bullets scream, rifles crack, magic whizzes, and men wail all around you.
It is the…
>[1] <span class="mu-s">Battle of Sacramento</span>, in the twilight days of 1861. Your commanding officer is <span class="mu-s">Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest “the White Wizard of the Saddle”</span>. Forrest’s leadership style consists of daring hit-and-run raids, rapid-deploying cavalry encirclements, and denying the enemy their own assets at every possible turn. The Colonel is defined by both a prodigious knowledge of cavalry tactics, as well as a shocking brutality when it’s deemed “necessary.” The cavalry division is currently haranguing the Union troops advancing into nominally Confederate controlled Western Tennessee.
>[2] <span class="mu-s">Battle of McDowell</span>, in the height of the Spring of 1862. Your commanding officer is Major General <span class="mu-s">Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson</span>. Jackson is a natural leader, inspiring, daring, and surprisingly intelligent. He leads a group of so-called “foot cavalry,” soldiers who can move up to thirty miles in a day and outflank just about anything while retaining the flexibility of infantry. Despite the designation of cavalry, the Major General is an infantry officer first and foremost, and his quickly-deploying troops are a mailed fist which can be poised to launch into the flanks of his foes.
>[3] <span class="mu-s">Battle of Rappahannock Station</span>, during the dog days of Summer of 1862. Your commanding officer is <span class="mu-s">Major General James Longstreet</span>. Longstreet is a discerning and multifaceted commander, as at home commanding artillery as he is infantry, and as able strategically as he is tactically. The Major General commands an entire wing of General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, engaged in a front-wide duel with Union General John Pope, a ringer sent in from the West, to protect the Confederate Capital.
<span class="mu-s">(1/4, another vote is incoming so please refrain from posting)</span>
In Dixie’s Land I’ll take my stand
To live and die in Dixie!</span>
America burns, brother fighting brother and sister fighting sister all along the Mason-Dixon line. Clashes of mind, steel, powder, and magic light up these Disunited States as Washington and Richmond duel over and over for a decisive victory.
But ever since the Battle of Manassas, it’s become crystal clear to almost everyone in the country that any promises of being “home by Christmas.”
That’s proven more each passing minute, as bullets scream, rifles crack, magic whizzes, and men wail all around you.
It is the…
>[1] <span class="mu-s">Battle of Sacramento</span>, in the twilight days of 1861. Your commanding officer is <span class="mu-s">Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest “the White Wizard of the Saddle”</span>. Forrest’s leadership style consists of daring hit-and-run raids, rapid-deploying cavalry encirclements, and denying the enemy their own assets at every possible turn. The Colonel is defined by both a prodigious knowledge of cavalry tactics, as well as a shocking brutality when it’s deemed “necessary.” The cavalry division is currently haranguing the Union troops advancing into nominally Confederate controlled Western Tennessee.
>[2] <span class="mu-s">Battle of McDowell</span>, in the height of the Spring of 1862. Your commanding officer is Major General <span class="mu-s">Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson</span>. Jackson is a natural leader, inspiring, daring, and surprisingly intelligent. He leads a group of so-called “foot cavalry,” soldiers who can move up to thirty miles in a day and outflank just about anything while retaining the flexibility of infantry. Despite the designation of cavalry, the Major General is an infantry officer first and foremost, and his quickly-deploying troops are a mailed fist which can be poised to launch into the flanks of his foes.
>[3] <span class="mu-s">Battle of Rappahannock Station</span>, during the dog days of Summer of 1862. Your commanding officer is <span class="mu-s">Major General James Longstreet</span>. Longstreet is a discerning and multifaceted commander, as at home commanding artillery as he is infantry, and as able strategically as he is tactically. The Major General commands an entire wing of General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, engaged in a front-wide duel with Union General John Pope, a ringer sent in from the West, to protect the Confederate Capital.
<span class="mu-s">(1/4, another vote is incoming so please refrain from posting)</span>
