WI: Confederate Capitol

I have seen in many timelines where a victorious south takes the District of Colombia, what I was wondering is if they did take it, would the capitol be moved there? Another question of mine is if somehow, after a Confederate anexation of DC and the US-CS reunited peacefully, would the US go back to Washington?
 
To answer the first question, Washington DC is THE symbol of the United States and it's Union, if in OTL the Confederacy had gotten it's hands on DC they most likely would have burned it down to the ground. Symbolically destroying the Union.

To the second, in any scenario in which the US managed to retake the CSA they would rebuild Washington and make it the capital again. Thus 'restoring' the Union.

Symbols are what make a nation function after all.
 
To answer the first question, Washington DC is THE symbol of the United States and it's Union, if in OTL the Confederacy had gotten it's hands on DC they most likely would have burned it down to the ground. Symbolically destroying the Union.

To the second, in any scenario in which the US managed to retake the CSA they would rebuild Washington and make it the capital again. Thus 'restoring' the Union.

Symbols are what make a nation function after all.

Uh no? The Confederates wanted DC to be their capital if Maryland joined the CSA.
 
To answer the first question, Washington DC is THE symbol of the United States and it's Union, if in OTL the Confederacy had gotten it's hands on DC they most likely would have burned it down to the ground. Symbolically destroying the Union.

To the second, in any scenario in which the US managed to retake the CSA they would rebuild Washington and make it the capital again. Thus 'restoring' the Union.

Symbols are what make a nation function after all.

Good point, there. Maryland joining the C.S.A. was rather unlikely, simply because, as in Kentucky and Missouri, there just wasn't that much in the way of pro-slavery furor as there had been in Virginia, Texas, and the Southeast.
 
Uh no? The Confederates wanted DC to be their capital if Maryland joined the CSA.

at a time when both sides believed that one great battle would decide the conflict, the Confederate won a great victory at the First Battle of Bull Run, also known as First Manassas (the name used by Confederate forces). It drove the Confederate people "insane with joy", the public demanded a forward movement to capture Washington DC, relocate the Capital there, and admit Maryland to the Confederacy.[127]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America#Military_strategy
 

Anaxagoras

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Good point, there. Maryland joining the C.S.A. was rather unlikely, simply because, as in Kentucky and Missouri, there just wasn't that much in the way of pro-slavery furor as there had been in Virginia, Texas, and the Southeast.

Unionist sentiment in Virginia was actually pretty strong up to the moment Fort Sumter was fired upon and Lincoln called for troops to suppress secession. Hell, even Jubal Early had strongly opposed secession before then!
 
Good point, there. Maryland joining the C.S.A. was rather unlikely, simply because, as in Kentucky and Missouri, there just wasn't that much in the way of pro-slavery furor as there had been in Virginia, Texas, and the Southeast.
Maryland seceding is not so outlandish. But i think the fact of the matter is that the state would have been put under martial law considering that at the same time that the First Union Troops were arriving in Baltimore/Washington, the secession meeting was already happening in another city.
 
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