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For George Washington to do this, he would have to have been someone other than the George Washington that we know and love. And if was someone else, he wouldn't have had the personal qualities that allowed him to win the Revolution in the first place. Even setting that aside, the idea of a...

I picked Roman Empire, but I specifically would restore the Roman Republic.

Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri join the Confederacy, vastly adding to its military manpower and resource base. It also gives the Confederacy a defensible frontier on the Ohio River and quickly leads to the occupation of Washington D.C. by the Confederates. Hardly any Democrats come over to...

The electoral votes of the Unionist governments in Louisiana and Tennessee weren't counted in the 1864 election.

Why?

I would make the Americans wear tricorner hats and the blue uniforms of the Continental Army, while I would make the British and Canadians wear red uniforms as in Victorian times. The Germans would be so confused that they would run away in confusion.

Well, Breckinridge did not want to be nominated in the first place, so he wouldn't feel that he owed them anything.

It's important to recall that Breckinridge, while he was backed by the extreme Fire-Eaters in this election, was far from a Fire-Eater himself. He was no secessionist and, had he somehow become President under these bizarre circumstances, would have done his very best to save the Union...

Would it? IOTL, massive artillery bombardment facilitated trench warfare because it assured that the attacking force, even if it broke the enemy line, would not be able to move quickly enough over the enemy rear areas (which had been so badly pulverized by the heavy artillery), so that the...

On the contrary, it has worked brilliantly and proves the manifest genius of the Founding Fathers.

The two-term precedent had set in, though. Both Jefferson and Madison said, IIRC, that they would not seek third terms because they wanted to follow the precedent set by Washington. In any case, Clay and Jackson are both sure to challenge Monroe, and Adams and Crawford might do so as well. It...

Not until it was guaranteed its pay. Yes, that's exactly the point. He could have taken power, but he decided he didn't want it and went home. Marius and Sulla, Pompey and Caesar, Cromwell and Napoleon didn't have their strength of character. Washington did.

Why would they want to?

A longer or more radical Reconstruction might have made "de-Confederization" even less effective than it was IOTL.

Hood outlined what the plan was in his memoir Advance and Retreat. It is confirmed by the journal kept by William Mackall, who was chief-of-staff of the Army of Tennessee on July 20. This is probably the only thing those two people actually agreed on, incidentally.

I often find it interesting that we fixate on the political aspects of the American Revolution and ignore the military ones, while with the Civil War is it just the opposite. Educated Americans can name several political figures from the American Revolution, but probably no military figure aside...

No, it was to pin him against the Chattahoochee on the south side of Peachtree Creek, not to cross the creek. At least not on July 20 itself. And that was more of a vague, general idea than a specific plan. Broadly, Hood's plan (and it might really have been Johnston's) was to smash up the...

It is the most likely Confederate victory scenario. It annoys me when people assert that CS Victory TLs are ASB, quoting the same arguments that would suggest America had no chance in the Revolution and North Vietnam had no chance of defeating the United States.

The water level is low, but the banks of the creek are very high (higher in 1864 than today, incidentally). It was described as being similar to a castle moat. It was not easily passable except over bridges. And yes, it works both ways. But Hood did not need to cross the creek. His goal was to...

It would have been extremely difficult for Thomas to pull back his exposed corps with Peachtree Creek at his back. That was why the Confederates planned the attack in the manner they did.