The Battle of Shiloh goes better.

[mcnutt]

The POD is that General Ulysses S Grant pays attention to the signs of the approaching Confederate troops and has his troops prepare for the attack. On the morning of April 6th 1862,the hastily built fortifications hold off the surprise attack until most of the Union troops stationed at Pittsburg Landing are awakened and rushed in to join the fight. When reinforcements arrive the Union forces destroy the Confederate attackers. They are able to proceed unopposed and they take Corinth Mississippi on April 10, 1862. The decision is made to prioritize the taking of Vicksburg. After a long drawn out campaign and a siege Vicksburg surrenders on February 14, 1863. Valentines Day is not celebrated in Vicksburg for many years. After the Mississippi River is secure, Grant and many of the Union troops go to Eastern Tennessee. On July 4, 1863, the day after the North received the good news of the victory at Gettysburg, Grant achieves victory at Chattanooga. On July 27, 1863, Lincoln appointed Grant, the hero of Shiloh, Vicksburg and Chattanooga to be Commander in Chief of the Union forces. He begins plans for an invasion of Virginia. Beginning with the Battle of the Wilderness on September 7, 1863, Northern voters would read in their newspapers of Grants slow progress and the high death tolls. Their spirits were lifted on May 1st 1864, when General William Sherman captured Atlanta, Georgia. The good news multiplied when Grant scored a victory at Petersburg, Virginia on August 1st 1864 and when Richmond fell on August 3rd 1864. After suffering defeat at the Battle of Appomattox on August 15, 1864, General Robert E Lee began evacuating his troops to North Carolina. Lee was following the lead of the Confederate Government. which was relocating to Raleigh, North Carolina. Sherman completed his March to the Sea and took Savannah, Georgia on August 21, 1864 September saw Grant pursing Lee in North Carolina and Sherman invading South Carolina. On October 11, 1864. Lee would surrender to Grant. In the 1864 Presidential Election, Congress would not count the electoral votes of the former Confederate states, except Louisiana and Tennessee. In those twenty seven states, Lincoln scored a landslide victory. He won 61 % of the popular vote to George McClellan’s 39%. Lincoln carried every state except Kentucky to win 222 to 11 in the Electoral Collage.