civil war

What if the US Government had, in early 1865, had intimated to the confederacy and the world at large that there would not be a blanket pardon with exceptions for a few especially heinous or high-ranking offenders, but rather a more standard policy where at least all former US officers and...

In OTL, Franco was neutral in WW2 but he authorized the creation of a volunteer "blue division" that would take most of the more radical franco supporters off his hands and into the meat grinder that was the eastern front. Franco's regime was much more conservative and stable than other fascist...

is there any way for the Confederate States of America to acquire sea access to the Pacific Ocean after a hypothetical victory, as result of events during the war or peace negotiations? IOTL, the western front of the Civil War saw a Confederate attempt to reach California that fell apart after...

Challenge: Make a scenerio where the Confederate States of America, the Indian Territory, and Deseret (Basically Just Utah, nothing else) full independence from the United States of America, around 1861-1865. One example is Lincoln gets assassinated earlier, The CSA gains foreign support, the...

(This is a copy of a thread I created at CivilWarTalk) Hi everybody, my Confederate Kentucky timeline has languished in development hell for a while now, and will likely be there a little longer still. My main reason for this is concerns over plausibility in various respects. I've asked several...

What if the Nigerian Civil War of the late 1960's, which saw rebellions spring up everywhere in the country (most notably Biafra) and left a lot of infrastructure and economic potential destroyed, had not happened? I mean, considering the country's ethnic composition, some civil strife was...

What if in 1855 California was split along the 36 30 parallel north into north and south California with south California becoming a slave state? Would the state of Southern California secede with the south in the civil war? How would the two states develop? Would south California be as...

US camel corps was an experiment done from 1856 to 66 testing out if camels could be used by the US military. They proved to be very good at their jobs and the enviroment suited them. However thr civil war stopped the experiment and the military declined them. If the experiment was done...

The US civil war lasted from 1861-1865. But what if it had lasted longer? How long could the south have realistically hold on for and what if anything at all would the result of that be on the US?

So is it possible to have John C. Frémont be elected president after Lincoln gets elected? If how can he become president? Does Lincoln have to live? Or does John C. Frémont have 1856 to become president?

What if, for some reason, the South was ok with no slavery. Would the Civil War still have happened for some other reason (like if states rights was a bigger issue in the south or something), or wouldn't it have happened?

If the United Somali Congress had managed to capture all of Somalia with a Paul Kagame type leader by January 1991, how would this effect Somalia over the next few decades? Would there be a chance of taking the Ogaden at the same time as Eritrean independence? How developed could it become?

Your challenge is to have confederate colonies such as New Virginia and New Texas survive. Bonus points if you can get these confederate colonies to become US states.

Would it be possible for the government of the Confederate States of America to flee the mainland of North America and establish a regime in exile, sort of like the Republic of China IOTL? Obviously the United States would need to occupy some territory off the mainland before the American Civil...

How would the Civil War unfold if the US territory had retained its limit of 1783? Would there still be causes for it to be triggered and would the Union remain the likely victor?

Don't know very much about this period of US history beyond the basics, but were there any political figures during the late 1850s, 1860s, and even 1870s who had a decent shot at winning the Presidency and would have been far more radical on abolishing slavery and dismantling the South's racial...

Why didn't the late Roman Republic build a new wall to replace the Severan Walls to wall off the entire city from attack? After all usurpers and generals away from Rome were gaining in influence and power after 100 BC. It would have made sense for the Senate to build the wall to consolidate...

Recently I asked about sports in the South if they successfully seceded in the US Civil War, because every sport popular in OTL started in the North (baseball, football, basketball, lacrosse) or international (association football ie: soccer) with the one possible exception- NASCAR, which could...

Preface In the century after the year 1930 massive changes were in store for the ancient nation of Ethiopia. In this year the man who would come to be known as Haile Selassie assumed his imperial title, and inherited one of the longest lasting and proudest nations in Africa. Despite this...

What if the Confederacy's goal during the Civil War to take Cuba was accomplished. How would this affect our timeline.