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I was thinking the (almost) same thing earlier today. Imagine how many lives could have been spared if someone had just put a bullet in jeff davis’s brain as he abandoned the senate.

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How much of a plus was Davis to the Confederate war effort, though?

MacKinlay Cantor has Grant dying in a riding accident outside Vicksburg in his If the South Had Won the Civil War. But he also has to make Lee's Gettysburg gamble pay off in the capture of Washington DC.