Jack of Harts

The soldiers manning McAlester Army Ammunition Base were extremely unhappy with how the new President came to power and the obvious fraud he used to hold onto it. They were even unhappier when he used federal forces to attempt to arrest the former President for trial in the District of Columbia. And when that failed to work, he formally activated the Insurrection Act and declared the entire State of Texas in “rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States.” McAlester is in Oklahoma, which was not part of the Republic of Texas at the time, and so nothing the President was doing at the time was pointed primarily at them. They simply followed the chain of command and hoped matters would improve. But then he ordered them to release their MOABs for use against the capital district of Austin. The use of those weapons on downtown Austin may have killed everyone capable of standing against the new President. Or it could have started a true Second Civil War. We will never know, because McAlester did not release them. We will probably never know how many lives they saved in that single act of defiance.