I've just started a novel that jumps back and forth between the present and the
ACW. I think its going to be a secret history. In it a diary of Lincoln's is stolen in April 1862, probably by Copperheads or out and out CSA supporters.
In it Lincoln says he wants to free all the slaves and send them out of the country to Africa or wherever.
Suppose Lincoln had actually wanted this, assuming he did not, and it had come out right then?
Who has the most to gain CSA supporters, abolitionists, Copperheads, Union Democrats , or who?
Shiloh had been fought and McClellan was already screwing up in the Peninsula.
In the book I'm reading I don't think it came out, at least
before now, or today's
world where it starts out would be completely different.
I don't want to say now what the book is because someone might
spoil it, but some of you may already guess, if you do say so, but
please don't spoil
it for the rest of us.
So how would it be different, and why?