confederatestatesofamerica

The American Civil War began in 1861 with the capturing of Fort Sumter by the south. What if this changed, what if in some alternate world, the South had succeeded much earlier? How far back can we make this civil war go? How would this affect American history? Who do you think might've won in...

What would the Confederate States look like if they survived in-to the modern era?

Union slavery and confederate abolitionists The northern states (union) with slaves from independence and with the expiration to the south, the south becomes abolitionist. The civil war begins south abolitionist and northern slavery

Confederate states with Pacific Coast How can the Confederate states have Coast to Pacific? What would the civil war be like? The relationship with the United States, Europe, Latin America and Mexico Relations with china and japan? Possible confederate victory? Could the Confederates try...

The third side of the American Civil War How can there be a third state fighting against the union and at the same time against the confederates (this state can not be ally of the confederates or mexico)

We had some threads about slavery in a surviving CSA. Many said that slavery would've survived in the south long after the end of the Civil War, because slavery was the whole raison d'être of the Confederacy. But what if, despite Lincoln's election, the south didn't seceded (maybe the southern...

Battle of Antietam Maj. Gen. D. H. Hill was relieved when a trailing Confederate soldier had returned to him Special Order 191 after having found it in the field. On September 17, 1862 the Army of Northern Virginia routed Union General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac. The Army of the...