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A long time ago, in the foreign land of middle school, I first got into alternate history. As roughly a third of us begin our careers as architects of allohistorical worlds, I decided to write a Confederate victory timeline, but put what I thought was a clever spin on it by writing it as a history book from that world. Recently I revisited that world and realized that, once you cut down on the Confederatewank and got rid of the Third Global War it wasn't such a bad TL. Now I'm reposting the revised version of my childhood steps into alternate history, chapter by chapter.
The title of the original book was just what the title of this thread is.

Preface

If one takes a broad look at it, the Confederate States of America began in 1860 when South Carolina seceded from the United States for fear of President-elect Lincoln destroying the southern institution of slavery, despite said President-elect's promises to the contrary. Following this, several other states seceded to join South Carolina and created a new nation to preserve the "noble institution."
Their fears were found to be not altogether unfounded when a Maryland agitator, hoping his brave action could preserve the Union, assassinated President Lincoln on March 2nd, 1861. However, the assassin, whose name is still unknown to this day, only made things worse, not realizing that Lincoln's successor would be his vice president Hannibal Hamlin.

Following the disastrous events surrounding Fort Sumter, several key Confederates realized that action needed to be taken immediately, and arranged for an attack on Washington DC, aided by Northern sympathizers. Although it was only partially successful, the attack did manage to block off the city, and General Robert E. Lee personally entered the city on April 22nd, 1861. President Hamlin, with no other option, personally surrendered to his foe.

Thus, in an illogically short period of time, the war was won, and the Confederacy set itself on the path to becoming a true nation. This would begin with the June 1861 treaty negotiations...


I realize that the preface was quite short, but give both present and twelve-year-old me a break, I didn't want to spend much time figuring out how the Confederates would have won the war so much as figuring out the consequences of such a victory and how it would affect the world and present me is too lazy to extend it further for pretty much the same reason. The following chapters will be much longer, I promise.
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