PC: Confederate government-in-exile?

I know it'd be sort of pointless, but why didn't they do it IOTL to thumb their noses at the victorious Union?

Who would have accepted it? I doubt any american governement would have wanted to piss the Union, and no European power would have any interest on it.
 

Anaxagoras

Banned
After a few months, a year at most, nobody in the South would have paid attention. Once elections begin to be held in the Southern states, any government-in-exile would have lost any legitimacy. Conceivably, it might have sped up Reconstruction efforts.
 
Who would have accepted it? I doubt any american governement would have wanted to piss the Union, and no European power would have any interest on it.

Agreed, the most you will get is Jeff Davis going somewhere and declaring a government in exile that no one including the home country recognizes or pays attention to.
 

iddt3

Donor
This might end up being an interesting PoD. The Die Hard Confeds go into exile instead of surrendering and proclaim themselves the legitmate government. The actual effect could be to delegitimize the confederacy in the long run once a few elections are held. Now we just need a country to host them...
 
Wasn't there a population of former Confederates in Brazil? Perhaps a government-in-exile could be established there.
 

Anaxagoras

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Wasn't there a population of former Confederates in Brazil? Perhaps a government-in-exile could be established there.

Many went to Brazil, yes. A bunch also went to Mexico and quite a few went to Europe. IIRC from William C. Davis' biography of Breckinridge, something like eight thousand Confederates went into voluntary exile after the war.
 
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