true, the US is a lot darker in this ATL (so, it's probably a good thing the US won the ACW, if the world had any chance of turning out like these books), but with Featherston in the CSA, Fascists in France and England, a repressive Kaiser in Germany, and the Tzar in RUssia, the US is the best of a bad lot. So, Morrell has to be considered one of the good guys, such as they are in this world....
I still think that HT is going for a Germany/RUssia scenario, and that he won't have the US lose (Americans are by far his biggest fan base). Rather, it might be Germany that's in trouble, with France and England both gunning for her....