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Essentially how would Britain realistically side with the openly slave-holding Confederacy, and what would a war of that sort pitting what was at the time a much stronger Britain against an industrializing power look like? The end result would be an Anglo-Confederate victory, but what kind of POD would get the British to side with the Confederacy? What would a ground war in the 1860s on that scale be like?

There's the two wars of German unification and the Taiping Rebellion but neither of those were invading areas with the biggest railroad network in North America at least at that time. Would an earlier example of railroad war have major ramifications for later wars and strategies?
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