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IOTL, the Confederate war effort during the American Civil War was largely the brainchild of one brilliant man, Josiah Gorgas, the Confederacy's chief of ordinance. It was he who created, basically from scratch, the factories and foundries which produced the war material necessary to keep the Confederacy fighting until 1865, and he was also very influential in the organization of blockade running. His organizational genius was absolutely vital to the Confederate war effort, and it was largely through his work that it can fairly be said that the South never lost a battle because it lacked sufficient rifles, cannon and ammunition.
But Gorgas was actually from Pennsylvania. He decided to go Confederate because he had married a girl from Alabama. What if Gorgas had remained loyal to the Union?