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It's a reboot of that previous TL https://www.alternatehistory.com/Discussion/showthread.php?t=288037

This TL begins with the idea of how could the CSA have survived.

Several threads, many discussions revolves around the term of '' victory ''.
What victory, can you tell me, South could achieve against a North which has both numerical and industrial superiority?
Some did speak of some foreign intervention. Some interesting scenarios have come about a different Trent Affair, but I can't honnestly subscribe to the idea of Great Britain entering into a war to save a nation which is seeking to preserve slavery, a sensitive topic for the British I believe. I can't even less think that Napoléon III could do it instead, so cautious he was to have London on his side over important geopolitic events (Crimea in 1853, Beijing in 1860 ...).
Others spoke of Antietam but, even if TL-191 may be a good novel, I doubt that it would have been decisive; Confederates had, in my opinion, as much chance to get North abandon of the war as the Nazis had of compelling Great Britain to make peace after the fall of France or of breaking the will of Stalin to fight at the gates of Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad.

Still, I don't believe that it was impossible for the Confederates to win their ''independence'', just that it would not be a ''victory''.
The scenario I imagined revolves around two elements.
The first is avoiding the fall of New Orleans; the fate of CSA was, in my opinion, pretty much sealed by this success that announced the success of Plan Anaconda.
The second is what could be considered a weakness of our world, one that great men, such as Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, helped us to overcome so we kept fighting whereas others, overrun by fear and despair, abandonned the fight or were too scared to begin it. That element is even the main reason, or rather the only plausible way to ensure a Confederate survival. What is it? Let me quote Lincoln below after this little explanation.








Enemy brothers: tales of divided country​





PART 1 - The American Civil War​




Public opinion in this country is everything - Abraham Lincoln







Summary

Chapter I - Dark Spring for the Union
Baltimore Uprising and siege, Coup of Saint-Louis, civil war in Kentucky - spring 1861

Chapter II - Double or quits
Maryland Campaign - summer 1861

Chapter III - A whisker away from Chattanooga
Union invasion of Kentucky, East Tennessee Campaign - summer 1861

Chapter IV - Welcome back to home
West Virginia and East Tennessee reintegrated - spring to summer 1861

Chapter V - Down the Mississippi
Campaign of Missouri and Arkansas - summer 1861 to spring 1862

Chapter VI - King of the Mountain
Jackson vs Banks - autumn 1861

Chapter VII - Winter is coming
Trent Affair, political fallout in North and South of that first year of war - winter 1861/1862

Chapter VIII - From Paducah to Paducah
Campaign of the Quadrilatere, Corinth Campaign, Heartland Offensive - autumn 1861 to autumn 1862

Chapter IX - Once upon a time in the West
Confederate Arizona, Rio Grande and Mesilla campaigns - 1861 to 1862

Chapter X - Playing cat and mouse
Chicahominy, Rappahanock and Peninsula Campaigns - March to August 1862

Chapter XI - Requiem for an anaconda
Siege of New Orleans, Vicksburg campaigns and Grant removal - autumn 1861 to winter 1862/1863

Chapter XII - The Grey Fox
Potomac Campaign - autumn 1862

Chapter XIII - Exit the King
Death of Lincoln, midterm elections - autumn 1862 to winter 1862/1863

Chapter XIV - All quiet on the Virginia Front
Richmond-Petersburg campaign - autumn 1862 to winter 1862/1863

Chapter XV - A river too far
Pennsylvania, Shenandoah and North Anna Campaigns - February to May 1863

Chapter XVI - Above the Clouds
Reorganisation in West, Frémont's Tennessee Grand Offensive, 3rd siege of Chattanooga - winter 1862/1863 to summer 1863

Chapter XVII - Blood, sweat and tears
Emancipation proclamation, draft riots, battle in Congress - spring and summer 1863

Chapter XVIII - Alea Iacta Est
Hammlin desperate moves, McClellan firing, Frémont's Great Offensive in Virginia - summer to autumn 1863

Chapter XIX - The Last Hurrah
Western and Trans-Mississippi theater - summer 1863 to autumn 1863

Chapter XX - War or Peace
Impeachment proceeding against Hammlin and resignation, Foote brief presidency, armistice - autumn 1863 to spring 1864​









P.S.:

You may note I killed Lincoln. I admire him too much to make him the man who lost the Union, so I had to kill him, but not too late. ITTL, he still becomes a martyr, the guy people would say about ''if only he could have lived, we could have won '' .

I originally made this summary as a recap for myself, but I think that this sample can give you an idea of what will follow.
If you want further precisions, you can read the first post of the v1.0 .

I will post the first chapter later this weekend.

Also, if the part 1 is about the civil war itself, the following parts would be about later developments in both the CSA and the USA.
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