September 17, 1861

I now have complete and total control of every aspect the Confederacy. It's the only way it will work.

We've temporarily abandoned the Philly base because we need all the men here to train the local divisions in small-unit warfare as well as arm them properly. If we're going to win this thing we need to get more men out there with better weapons and better training.

I recognize that we simply don't have the time to be as thorough as I was with the IB, but anything is better than what they have now. Especially considering that the Union have been developing their own weaponry in an attempt to match us. Reports off the front show that they've got grenades and "coffee mill" guns. A coffee mill gun is a weapon that was rejected in my original time-line but apparently has been approved for use now, because of the squeeze we're putting on them. It's similar to the gatling gun, but has only one barrel and uses the same paper cartridges that a rifle would use. They're beingissued as part of infantry divisions, not artillery, so we're apt to see them more and more as they are distributed.

First order of business is to adapt the C-61 to a "carbine" length so that it can be used effectively to a longer range. This means manufacturing longer barrels and stocks, as well as better sights. That should give us something that we can issue in large numbers to CR infantry and thusly the advantage we need.

My men are under orders to begin drilling the local divisions in basic maneuver and tactics. They will not be reorganized like the IB though. We don't have enough time to make that big of a change. I'd say that in another week or two we'll have two whole divisions trained and in another three months we'll have them all armed.


Now that I have access to more materials and better funding, I can resume work on the tank designs I have as well as the chemical weapons I have planned. My guess is that the tank will take the better part of three months to develop a prototype for and another six to get into mass production and make enough of them to deploy on the battlefield. The chemical weapons won't take nearly as long though, as I already have the plans and formulas laid out for producing Phosgene and gas masks to protect against it. I won't have my mnesticide for a while, but at least we'll have something out there.


I need to meet with Lee tomorrow to start getting the regular infantry repositioned so that we can end the stalemate. I'm thinking a major anphibious push up the Mississippi would gain us some ground.