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OOC: POD Hood doesn't backstab Johnston and attacks as ordered. Sherman is slowed down enough he isn't able to take Atlanta before the election and Little Mac is elected and screws up the war so badly the Union loses.

What if Sherman took Atlanta and a result Lincoln wins the election and the US wins the war? Would the South still be 50 or so years behind the times? Would the 60 year period of the CSA existance before the Great War broke out between Great Britian, France and Germany vs Russia, Austria-Hungry and the CSA weakened the CSA so much that the US was able to reconquer it be so impoverished for the Southern states? After all the CSA and its various state governments had virtually no money left after making debt payments and paying for the army. How much better off would the South have been if there was no slavery during that period?
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