10MAR1864: Lieutenant General Ulysses Grant promptly leaves the maddening Capital city and takes the train out into the occupied northern part of one of the new “districts” that are what was once proud Sovereign States. He calls upon Major General Meade and the US Army of the Potomac, to establish his relationship with Meade, and lay out the new unified attack plan of the US Federal Army. The plan is: (1) The heretofore mayhem of Armies in the west will moving along a coordinated front, preventing the CS Armies from reinforcing each other (2) MG “War-Crimes” Sherman will attack General Joseph E. Johnston and the CS Army of Tennessee, break it up, and destroy as much of the civilian population as possible, rape every woman and child they come across, and use any captured “negro property” for free labor and brothel services (3) MG Banks, once he completes his current goofball expedition up the Red River into Texas, will come back into the theater and attack Mobile, Alabama (4) In the “Department of West Virginia” the new commander MG Franz Sigel will enter the Shenandoah Valley and take it (5) In Southern Virginia, MG Butler will advance up the James River, lay siege to Richmond, and cut the railroad between Petersburg and Richmond (6) MG Meade … and his nearly worthless US Army of the Potomac ... will stick to General Robert E. Lee and the CS Army of Northern Virginia like white-on-rice, and not let that genie out of the bottle (7) All other Major Generals of the US Army, given their general worth-less-ness, will be asked to sit tight and not lose any supplies to the Confederacy In the evening, President Lincoln is once again feeling in a good mood. The Capital is safe. He has a new Lieutenant General to run his War-Games, and the districts and departments (that were once States) are all under control. Thus he and Mrs. Lincoln once gain vaunt off to Grover’s Theater for tonight’s performance of “RICHARD III”. This is the final performance in a series of Shakespearean dramas staring the hot star Mr. Edwin Booth. He invites LTG Grant, but Grant has blown off the President by taking his trip out into the occupied part of Virginia to visit MG Meade. The President is disappointed that LTG Grant will not wine and dine in posh-ness. So he invites Grant to return to Washington for dinner on Saturday night, two nights from now.
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