AHC/ASB?: OTL borders in Independent CSA

Is it ASB or reasonable that the borders of the states in an Independent Confederacy with the United States will be exactly equal to the borders of those States in 2012. Most specifically, I have several areas that I can not imagine exactly following the boundaries of today.

1) West Virginia/Virginia Border, most specifically, I'm having a hard time imagining that the border especially in the eastern Panhandle would be the same as it is today. In OTL, Virginia went to the Supreme Court to declare the method by which the eastern Panhandle counties went to West Virginia, I would imagine that they would be equally insistent in a Peace Treaty

2) Greer County Texas. The State of Texas set up this county inside what is now Oklahoma and claimed it all the way from 1860 to the Supreme Court decision in 1896. I doubt the Union would insist on keeping all of the Indian Territory.

3) Other areas of concern are that the Union would want to keep the VA part of the Delmarva to keep the Chesapeake from being blockaded and whether the Union would give up the very Union supporting areas of Tennessee.
 
New Orleans is the most glaring example of a US-CS problem outside the Virginia/WV/East Tennessee/Northern Arkansas issues.

I agree, but I think New Orleans is an All or Nothing. While New Orleans was critical from a military standpoint, a peace treaty will almost certainly give it back to the Confederacy with no obvious outpost in Louisiana for the Union to keep. If the Union keeps New Orleans, I think then it isn't even a peace of exhausion for the Union, it is a peace of no longer caring.
 
I agree, but I think New Orleans is an All or Nothing. While New Orleans was critical from a military standpoint, a peace treaty will almost certainly give it back to the Confederacy with no obvious outpost in Louisiana for the Union to keep. If the Union keeps New Orleans, I think then it isn't even a peace of exhausion for the Union, it is a peace of no longer caring.

There's no almost certain here, it's a very useful bargaining chip for the Union to have an army holding the CSA's largest city, as well as an army in Nashville.....
 
There's no almost certain here, it's a very useful bargaining chip for the Union to have an army holding the CSA's largest city, as well as an army in Nashville.....

Oh, I agree that having New Orleans is *incredibly* useful as a bargaining chip, but would not be a *direct* cause of a state/national border being different than OTL. The question is what is it being traded *for*. If it is East Tennessee(/North Arkansas/etc.) then that makes the boundaries *less* likely to look like OTL.

My feeling is that by the time West Virginia/Khanawa(sp?) is formed, the Union must have New Orleans and thus can make sure that heavily unionist areas can be gotten in any peace treaty.
 
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