Walk in Hell
From Turtledove
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The Great War rages on. In the election of 1915 the CSA elects Whig Party man Gabriel Semmes for president. The US Army continues on with their successes from the previous year. The CSA turns to another threat, the new Red Rebellion. They are forced to divert troops from the main front to fight this internal threat. The main rebellion is put down in short order, but die-hard Reds still fight out of swamps and woods in the deep South. The US takes advantage of this distracion and they are able to advance on almost all fronts except for the deadlocked Roanoke Valley fight. There the fighting is fiercest and both armies move in terms of feetas time goes by. In Utah the Mormon rebellion is also in its death throes and it is put down in early 1916. The US First Army has conquered most of Kentucky and now moves on to Tennessee. On the Eastern Front The Army of Northern Virginia continues their long retreat from Pennsylvania down into Maryland. The CSA also loses ground in the west, where their army retreats into Texas from Sequoyah. In Canada US forces make their slow way towards Winnipeg in Manitoba, Toronto in Ontario, and Quebec and Montreal in Quebec. Barrels are also introduced in 1916 on the Roanoke Front. Despite their constant mechanical problems they almost cause a breakthrough on that front due to the fear of the CS troops. The CSA eventually begins to make their own barrels, also used somewhat effectively. The US Army attemps an invasion of Baja California, ruled by the Empire of Mexico, but the invasion is easily repelled. However desperation is growing in the CSA as they lose more and more groud to their foe. President Gabriel Semmes introduces a bill in Congrees to attempt to allow blacks to serve in the CS Army and it passes through Congress. Things still aren't looking good for the Confederacy by the end of the book as the USA attempts another offensive that is planned to go through northeastern Arkansas into Tennessee and link up with Custer's First Army. Theodore Roosevelt is reelected in the USA in the election of 1916, beating Eugene Debs as the book ends.
| The Southern Victory series | |||
| How Few Remain | Second Mexican War period | ||
| The Great War | American Front | Walk in Hell | Breakthroughs | Great War period | |
| American Empire | Blood and Iron | The Center Cannot Hold | The Victorious Opposition | Inter-War period | |
| Settling Accounts | Return Engagement | Drive to the East | The Grapple | In at the Death | Second Great War period | |
| Timeline-191 | |||
