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Sherman did not even know the battle was happening until it was nearly over.

I happen to know a teeny, tiny bit about the Battle of Peachtree Creek. A Confederate victory is entirely possible. Indeed, under better leadership, it could have turned into a truly decisive victory. In Shattered Nation, I go with the idea that the plan was originally Johnston's and that he is...

Short of a nuclear exchange, which is sort of the obvious answer... The Allies carry out Operation Pike, bringing the USSR into World War II as an ally of Nazi Germany in the spring of 1940.

Queen Victoria would not have been amused.

Cleburne was only a division commander, though. If Hood were somehow incapacitated, command would have fallen to Alexander Stewart, who was the ranking corps commander. Confusingly, Ben Cheatham's commission as a major general predated that of both Alexander Stewart and S.D. Lee, but Stewart and...

For one thing, there is obviously no cult of Lee. He would go down in history as a foolish and reckless general.

Grant launching a coup would be an ASB scenario. McClellan, on the other hand...

A very interesting and well thought-out TL. It is October, of course, and there are only a few weeks of good weather remaining before the armies go into winter quarters, so even with this victory it will be difficult for the Union to push the front lines in Tennessee much farther forward than...

Butterflies obviously guarantee that the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846-48 would not happen or would happen at a different time and in a completely different manner. Nevertheless, my first thought on reading the title was "The Mexicans will do much better against the Americans!"

It might come earlier. IOTL, the early American oil demand was satisfied from western Pennsylvania and Ohio, but the CSA would have to import oil if they were an independent nation. This would lead them to search more intensively for domestic supplies.

Wonderful series! I loved every page and was sad when I finally finished.

It uses the word "permanent", not "perpetual", though they mean basically the same thing ("perpetual" has a better ring to it, in my opinion). But this doesn't preclude the secession of a state. If Texas were to secede, the Confederate government would not cease to exist. And, for what it's...

The Confederate Constitution is as silent on the matter of secession as was the U.S. Constitution. Since the Confederates obviously recognized that the right of secession existed under the U.S. Constitution, the implication is that the right continued to exist under the C.S. Constitution, too.

The possible secession of the Texas is intended to be one of the major plot points of the third novel in the Shattered Nation series. . . if I can ever get around to writing it. It's sketched out well enough, but having three kids and a time-consuming job make writing difficult.

Why do we send probes to Jupiter?

The South could not last much belong what it did IOTL due to obvious manpower, financial, and logistical reasons. Militarily speaking, it's amazing that they lasted as long as they did. If the South had achieved significantly better results before the fall of 1864 (i.e. winning a crushing...

Caesar could not withdraw to Italy, because he was cut off from the coast and Pompey's fleet controlled the seas. He was outnumbered and running out of supplies. Pompey was not in any position to have to fight if he didn't want to and would have preferred to simply avoid battle and wait for...

Stalemate at Pharsalus is the same as Caesar losing.

I would normally suggest using razor sharp wit. But no nation has wit that can match that of the British, so it's a lost cause.

While I think this is an unlikely scenario, since the French would not want the Rhineland and they would not have been willing to risk American economic support, its not quite true to say that they had "no way" to enforce this. At the end of WWII, the French Army had been reconstituted and...