James - if there had been an uber plague that wiped out those men then it would have spread all over the East Coast from Norfolk. The fact that so few of those men ever go to any existing US units is yet another reason why HW needs to be ignored.
Simply put - Wiseman needed to come up with a way for the US to fall apart and not take Texas back - and he did it by not doing what the US would have obviously done - which is send 8-10K men to the units in OK and LA and take back Texas from the Mexican Army.
Plus keep in mind - 6000 men from Europe went to the RDF, with Kings Ransom written after the arrived - and those men didnt bring an uber plague there. Thus there was no plague.
Sorry James - wish it was different but what really happened was bad writing at GDW. Its another reason why what Chico was proposing - i.e. starting over at Going Home and this time having it make sense - sounds better every time you look at the issues with the timeline once you get to HW and Kidnapped.
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