DBWI "Gone with the Wind" takes place during a war

I've been reading a history of the CSA and apparently the secession of the six states from the USA in 1860 wouldn't have necessarily have happened so peacefully. The USA president-elect, Abraham Lincoln, whose election may have sparked the crisis, was something of a nationalist who might have tried to force the states back into the Union by force if he hadn't wound up in that railway accident. And there were hotheads in the CSA army who wanted to start a war and it took all of Toombs' efforts to put them in their place.

But just at one overlooked butterfly. The highly successful novel and movie, "Gone with the Wind", is set on a plantation in Georgia during that time. What changes would happen in bothl if there had actually been a war?
 
It would have been interesting to say the least... The way Margaret Mitchell managed to turn the conflict between the burgeoning industrialist Atlanta and the sedately rural Clayton County planters really was a wonderful insight into the social tensions of the early Confederacy. The rivalry between the wealthy bourgeois Hamiltons and stubborn Irish O'Haras over love, slaves, and money made for such a brilliant storyline.
 
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