1920's

[Frukathka]

Unbeknownst to most people Robert E. Lee was an ancient vampire and a medium. Though the south had lost innumerable lives to the war Lee did what was in his power to keep up the fight. With access to minor necromantic spells, he animates the bodies of the fallen and uses them to turn the tide of the war.

Richmond. Though Lees’ living army was shrinking his army of undead soldiers was growing. Lee only used a small portion of his undead at the fight in the town of Petersburg, Virginia. Though the town fell, the dead were brought back to life. Grant was unable to hold the town, as the undead slew a good portion of the union soldiers in their sleep. April 4th, in the year of 1865 was a day of tragedy for the U.S. Lincoln visited the town, and was slew by the hordes of undead. Grant, enraged by the atrocity that had caused the president his life, continued to press against the tide of war.

Confederate Independence. Lee trapped Grant at a small town in Virginia called the Appomattox Courthouse. This is where Lee had been keeping his reserves of undead. The abominations descended upon the Union army and obliterated it. Grants life was spared by Lee. Lee made it clear that on the following day, April 9th in the year of 1865 that the Confederacy would not tolerate any more incursions into their territory. Any attack on them would lead to a war that the U.S. could not win. The U.S. finally granted the Confederacy the status of a nation on that day.

The civil war made it quite clear that the Red Death had a powerful ally and that the Confederacy was not a force to be trifled with.
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This is all I have so far on the history of the civil war. I fully intend to flesh it out some more and stat out Grant and Lee. Thoughts?

[ScS of the Fraternity]

Ooo-kay,

If Robert E. Lee was an ancient vampire, this suggests that he was around for a very long time before the Civil War. Was he also other historical figures of importance? What other fiends were at work within the CSA? How did they influence the post-war world?

A nation founded by ambominations must certainly feel the taint. Were the armies of undead hushed up somehow? Is the confederacy some sort of bleak realm ruled by necromancers?

You mentioned that this was a post world war II world - a considerable time since the civil war. How has the split in the US impacted history? How does this change the combatants involved in WWI and WWII? Since this is post WWII how is the nuclear age changed by a zombie-powered confederacy?

How has the confederacy been changed by the introduction of the living dead? Have the gentleman planters become Lugosi-esq zombie-slave masters? Is there a zombie civil rights movement ?