Heh.
Keeping Nancy as a hard-as-nails Baltimore machine apparatchik in particular has a certain aesthetic appeal to me, in particular.
Perhaps. We’ll have a check in with the captured Congressmen in due time but of course they’re in much better conditions than POWs.
He's a really interesing, in a morbid way, character. Swiss-American who went onto command the most infamous prison camp of the Civil War (if you haven't heard much of Andersonville, I would also suggest looking into it). He was the only confederate officer executed for treason after the war.
Man, shit like this, makes me wish we had journal entries of CSA soldiers. Would be nice to see their fantasies shatter as they meet reality.
In some ways this is the most significant thing mentioned. What this means to be is that not only is *Nashville* under attack in the following year (1914), the Confederacy has by (at latest) December 1914 largely been kicked out of Maryland & Pennsylvania (theoretically they may still hold the Maryland Eastern Shore even up to the C&D canal). I agree it is possible that San Diego has fallen with all of the US troops pulled East to conquer Yuma (a comment about the Far west being very broad).
)In some ways this is the most significant thing mentioned. What this means to be is that not only is *Nashville* under attack in the following year (1914), the Confederacy has by (at latest) December 1914 largely been kicked out of Maryland & Pennsylvania (theoretically they may still hold the Maryland Eastern Shore even up to the C&D canal). I agree it is possible that San Diego has fallen with all of the US troops pulled East to conquer Yuma (a comment about the Far west being very broad).
The east is the *key* front, if the Confederacy has lost all of its gains there and has lost enough of Kentucky that Nashville (Metro) is under siege then functionally, then even if the Confederates can defend the Potomac, they are NOT in good shape.
Even the most *horrible* possible front lines with Nashville under seige, the Confederates back to the Potomac and the Union keeping "Tulsa" for the rest of the war) would be the following: The USA has collapsed on the Far Western Front (by correctly prioritizing the East and Center) and both San Diego, Los Angeles, and Yuma have been occupied by the Mexicans (I'm convinced the California National Guard could manage to keep them south of the San Francisco bay area) and the Confederates have managed to take parts of Western Kansas and *maybe* some of the US Ozark/Appalachian fronts in Missouri/West Virginia and keep control of the Chesapeake Eastern Shore south of the C&D. And even in that most horrible situation given what we know, the US would view themselves as winning.
I honestly expected this war (at least the part involving the CSA) to take as long as the OTL Civil War and OTL WWI, both of which were *about* four years. This description makes it look like the CSA will be *broken* in less than three years.
As a quick note that *may* affect terminology in Universe, and may even cause *small* retcons. According to Wikipedia, the first recorded use of the Delmarva for the Peninsula on the East side of the Chesapeake is in the 1870s for Businesses and it didn't come into common non-business usage until the 1920s. And I would expect it to be used *less* iTTL. (and of course after the war when the two counties are taken from Virginia and given to Maryland, it won't apply at all.
Good points all. I'd argue that the National Guards of the so-called "Zone 8/Zone 9" states that exist ITTL would be more than enough to keep the Mexicans and whatever CSA forcers out of most of southern California, let alone northern. CA/OR/WA have roughly six million people ITTL per the 1910 census. Add in whatever you can scrounge up from ID/UT/CO/WY/NV and you'd have more than enough of a National Guard to keep the Mexicans out of everything south of say Bakersfield if not even further south.
It has already been said that California will not be under significant threat for the remainder of the war.
Eventually. I'm predicting *way* forward based on three mentions of "later in the war" in various pieces. In the short term, I'm just assuming that any point not specifially mentioned (or that is between an army that has invaded and their border) is part of the country that it started the war in.
Having mentioned Utah, I'm still curious about the tragedy that the LDS Church is going through with the expectation of significant number of saints in Confederate Arizona and Sonora Mexico (I'm not sure as many as iOTL, but still reasonable to expand/proselytize south.
Well, if you are keepingNancy Pelosi around then - Admiral Jimmy Carter incoming?
It’s hard to see how the CSA could survive after stuff like this.
Survive as a country? The author has said that the CSA as a nation will continue. (possibly missing two states, a territory, a protectorate and possibly other things) . And I don't think the author has said that enslaving captured US Negros is anything other than Business as Usual for the CSA army (to the point where there may even be regulations about it)
My *guess* is that since rivers matter so much in this war that the United States would want not just Baja, but also the part of Sonora that drains into the last 50(?) miles of the Colorado River. Eyeballing it, that is a diamond about 40 miles by 40 miles and at least half of that today is part of two Biosphere Reserves. Even today, I'm not sure that area supports more than 50,000 people. (It is maybe 2% of the size of Baja, and at that point, its more lines on a map than anything else)
