Best Civil War timelines?

Post your opinions here. I'd like to see the ones considered most plausible ("realistic"), most interesting ("original"), and most fun ("pulpy").

edit: Online timelines are okay too, and you can also nominate other categories you make up yourselves.
 
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Guns of the South wins for fun factor, hands down.

Bring the Jubilee wins for originality, albeit not for plausibility. ("CSA controls the Americas south of 38N? Sure, why not?")

How Few Remain (although emphatically not the sequels) wins for plausibility, although I'll admit those three stories pretty much run the gamut of Civil War TLs I've read. :eek:
 
Bring the Jubilee wins for originality, albeit not for plausibility. ("CSA controls the Americas south of 38N? Sure, why not?")

"Technology has developed very differently in this world; the internal combustion engine and the incandescent light bulb are two examples of inventions never invented in that timeline."

I have to give Ward Moore props. The book is written in the '50s and he already leaps ahead of the commonly AH cliche/convention of inevitable inventions. And seven transcontinental railroads, nice.
 
Guns of the South wins for fun factor, hands down.

Bring the Jubilee wins for originality, albeit not for plausibility. ("CSA controls the Americas south of 38N? Sure, why not?")

How Few Remain (although emphatically not the sequels) wins for plausibility, although I'll admit those three stories pretty much run the gamut of Civil War TLs I've read. :eek:

I'm going to have to agree with Zed on all three points. Are there any exceptionally good ACW TLs on the board that I should know about? I know Robertp (just realized, he could be my cousin) has a bit of a Confederate fetish (;)), so has he written any great ACW TLs?
 
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