A House Divided

[EQandcivfanatic]

No, for amphibious operations, infantry brigades would be needed.

 

[sp1023]

EQ: When can generals start equipping NESers to the armies?

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

Generals can do that now if they'd like.

 

[Terrance888]

So does Warman does it or do we call it?

Personally I'll take Leavenworth, Kansas, Ohio, or St. Louis.

However, they are important, and my be stationed with a more minor force. This is for the commander in chief Warman and G(m)od EQ.

 

[sp1023]

Crezth, I beg of you bowdown I want to fight Charles Li! Please! Please put me on the army opposing Charles' divisions. Please?

 

[Terrance888]

Crezth, I beg of you bowdown I want to fight Charles Li! Please! Please put me on the army opposing Charles' divisions. Please?

OOC:
*Puts a finger on the fighting mess, pushes, the fighting mess flys back to dixi land where it came.*

Oh yea! We'll take the Mississippi anyways! Onward men! I will be the next GRANT!

 

[Warman17]

Army of Northeastern Virginia: Lightfang
Cumberland Force: human_slaughterer
West Virginia Command: a_propagandist
Ohio Command: open
Indiana Command: wubba360
St. Louis Department: The Last Jacobite
Leavenworth Cavalry: charles_li

New England Squadron: Open
Atlantic Fleet: dldnjstjr
Mississippi River Fleet: Open

 

[sp1023]

Dayum, North is so much better! Crezth, hope you can pull this off.

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

The first map is up on the stats post. This map is not complete, and will soon include cities, forts, and army locations.

 

[human-slaughter]

I accept and am honored to take the lead of my forces. May the North triumph!

 

[Supermath]

Decloak: Shouldn't West Virginia be part of Virginia? Also, Nebraska wasn't admitted as a state until 1867.

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

Ah, good catch with Nebraska. For NESing purposes, we're counting West Virginia as a state already because the counties seceded after the Virginian seccession.

 

[Warman17]

It was actually a very complicated a confusing matter:

The Second Wheeling Convention met as agreed on June 11 and declared that, since the Secession Convention had been called without the consent of the people, all its acts were void, and that all who adhered to it had vacated their offices. The Wheeling Conventions, and the delegates themselves, were never actually elected by public ballot to act on behalf of western Virginia.[11] An act for the reorganization of the government was passed on June 19. The next day Francis H. Pierpont was chosen by other delegates at the convention to be governor of Virginia, other officers were elected and the convention adjourned. The legislature was composed of 103 members, 33 of whom had been elected to the Virginia General Assembly[12] on May 23. This number included some hold-over Senators from 1859, and as such had vacated their offices to convene in Wheeling. The other members "were chosen even more irregularly-some in mass meetings, others by county committee, and still others were seemingly self-appointed"[13] They met on June 20 and filled the remainder of the state offices, organized a state government and elected two United States senators who were recognized at Washington, D.C. At that point, therefore, there were two state governments in Virginia, one pledging allegiance to the United States and one to the Confederacy.

The Wheeling Convention, which had taken a recess until August 6, then reassembled on August 20, and called for a popular vote on the formation of a new state and for a convention to frame a constitution if the vote should be favorable. At the election on October 24, 1861, 18,489 votes were cast for the new state and only 781 against. Most of the affirmative votes came from ten counties in the Wheeling area.[14] Over 50,000 votes had been cast on the Ordinance of Secession, yet the vote on statehood gathered only a little over 19,000. In Ohio County, home to Wheeling, a little over one-quarter of the voters cast a vote.[15] At the Constitutional Convention in November 1861, Mr. Lamb of Ohio County and Mr. Carskadon said that in Hampshire County, out of 195 votes only 39 were cast by citizens of the state, the rest by Union soldiers.[16] In most of what would become West Virginia, there was no vote at all as two-thirds of the territory of West Virginia had voted for secession and county officers were still loyal to Richmond.[17] Votes recorded from Secession counties were mostly cast in the northwest by Unionist refugees from those counties.[18] The convention began on November 26, 1861, and finished its work on February 18, 1862, and the instrument was ratified (18,162 for and 514 against) on April 11, 1862.

On May 13, the state legislature of the reorganized government approved the formation of the new state. An application for admission to the Union was made to Congress, and on December 31, 1862, an enabling act was approved by President Abraham Lincoln admitting West Virginia, on the condition that a provision for the gradual abolition of slavery be inserted in the Constitution. Many, including Lincoln, felt that West Virginia's admission as a state was unconstutional, but wartime politics prevailed.[19] The Convention was reconvened on February 12, 1863, and the demand was met. The revised constitution was adopted on March 26, 1863, and on April 20, 1863, President Lincoln issued a proclamation admitting the state at the end of sixty days (June 20, 1863). Meanwhile officers for the new state were chosen and Governor Pierpont moved his capital to Alexandria where he asserted jurisdiction over the counties of Virginia within the Federal lines.

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

Well, we'll keep that nice and simple. West Virginia is West Virginia.

 

[Crezth]

Because I know EQ wants details, and because I personally want to get a better feel for my generals and their preferences, and because I want to outline the general Plan for the Confederacy, I'm going to be holding a conference on AIM Friday May 2nd 8:00 PM EST for a general outline of our goals and for the assignments for everyone.

Confederate generals (and those whom I have not yet confirmed, but still want in), feel free to get AIM and be around at 8:00 that time. I will be finalizing assignments and other preliminaries that night as well.

 

[sp1023]

Does anyone here have a gmail? OMG!

I'll try Crezth, but the thing is, I don't have Aim. I'm really sorry.

 

[Terrance888]

The commander of the Frontier Cavalrymen of the Leavenworth Cavalry idled his horse. He knew of the troubles, living so close to them. The Indian raids are still common. And just a dozen or so Kansas bleed red as Pro and Anti slavery tried to win the government of the state. He sighed and faced Louisiana, where his Grandpop lived and died... he swore silently, "I promise those evil men we all hate will not win! And that they will not defile you grave for long!", Then spoke, he faced his men, ready to fight for the union.

 

[Crezth]

Does anyone here have a gmail? OMG!

I'll try Crezth, but the thing is, I don't have Aim. I'm really sorry.

Try crezth@gmail.com. I don't use it much, though, so don 't expect you can see me on the messenger function.

I don't suppose you'd be willing to renegotiate your position of not having AIM?

 

[bestshot9]

sp, you can download AIM here: http://www.aim.com/get_aim/win/latest_win.adp

 

[sp1023]

My account isn't admin. And I'm strictly forbidden from chat, said my parents. I'm not even supposed to be doing this.