Byrd Man

Shadows Among Us

So do the apps get the thumbs up seal of approval?

World in Revolution: 1861

Just a heads up Aegon in case you didn't know, but usually major war offenses stopped during the winter. It wasn't until technology improved clothing and road conditions in the 20th century that they could actually have year around warfare.

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Response? Why should the president respond to the political pandering of Jeff Davis? The Rebs will grow gray hair and become stooped-shouldered old men waiting for Lincoln to reply to any message they send to Washington. As for this Christmas True nonsense, I can say for a fact the Federal army has no plans to do anything at all during coming winter except trying to stay warm and building up strength for the spring campaign.

Major General George B. McClellan, Commanding General Army of the Potomac to reporters

World in Revolution: 1861

From what I remembered with the US, it was a special election order you get. An additional one with the usual orders.

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You're right, but Davis ran unopposed. I mean, if you want someone else I guess you can go for it.

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Jefferson Davis was appointed to a six year term as President by the Confederate legislature. The CSA president could only serve one term. You're good on that front for quite a while.

World in Revolution: 1861

In WiR when it's an election year for you, you just say who you want to be the new president in your orders and I think he'll roll for it.

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When Thomas Jefferson wrote "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" it wasn't entirely true at the time. There still remained that unspoken populace of the country, the poor enslaved negro. The practice of slavery has shaped every decision of the past eighty-five years, from the war with Mexico to the admission of Missouri and Kentucky into the country. A small coalition of Southerners like Polk, Calhoun, and Clay bullied, cajoled, and compromised their way to prop this wicked practice upright, like a dying man on a sick horse.

Now a small coalition of Southern politicians seek separation over the practice of slavery. They wish to keep those millions in bondage regardless of the bloodshed and the pain it causes the slave and the freeman. The matter of slavery is one that I will not get into fully, but let me say that the South's illegal rebellion must come to an end so that justice can be brought to this wicked coalition. Easier said than done thanks to an even smaller coalition from thousands of miles away. They feel that it is their right to impose their will upon our country, to tell us that our desire for a unified and free country is wrong. They wish to say that the direction of these United States is for them to decide. They ignore our rights and talk about a sham peace while they send warships and troops and attempt to block our trade. These men who wear crowns and practice that laughable practice of Divine Right, are a series of walking contradictions. They talk about Southern sovereignty and respecting its rights as a country, while they bully us and attempt to rip our sovereignty from us by force. They wish to enslave us like the South has enslaved the negro.

Our country stands on a knife's edge at the moment. The bloodshed has just started, but more bloodshed across the world seems to be the forecast. If I am given a choice of prolonged war as free country, or continued peaceful existence as a broken country, one that will kowtow to the foreign powers and lick the European boot? I choose war. I have no doubt that this war will be a difficult one for all of us to endure, but endure we must. We are on His side, the side of the angels. I believe He has shown us the truth, that truth will guide us and show us the way. I am only the sixteenth chief executive of this nation, and I will do everything in my power and ability to make sure that there will be a seventeenth and an eighteenth after I am done. This nation will be united, we will move forward into our destiny as one of the great nation states of the ages. His truth is marching on.

-- Abraham Lincoln
President, United States of America

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Outcast said
Working on it. TBH I didn't really expect this RP to be needing one before even the first update. Hell, the last WiR I was in we made it 15 updates before we got in a world war.

We did have at least three or four almost near world war events, though. One right out the gate.

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AegonVI said
Welp. It isn't just a Civil War anymore...

This hasn't been an actual Civil War since the first goddamn post.