If I could make a request, could you do more updates that include cabinet meetings where they talk about the course of the war and their plans? I know you've had a few of those, but I personally really enjoy them. I don't think we've seen one from London in a good while.
That is something I intend to try and do (and in the purely narrative format I hope to one day write, I would be doing that pretty often). There will be one or two coming up, one in London in Chapter 49.
I haven't looked back at the chapter, but I'm pretty sure I remember you saying Beriah Magoffin escaped to Union lines with the state gold reserves. Magoffin IOTL was pro-South, and I doubt he would do so without being forced to. Did you intend for this to be a different governor (likely Speaker of the Senate John F. Fisk), or did you intend for him to escaping South?
That is correct. IIRC, Magoffin was OTL pro-South until Polk occupied Columbus, when he felt rather betrayed by Davis who had pledged to not occupy the state and respect its neutrality. Add to that George Johnson was with the army invading Kentucky, I suspected that Magoffin would flee the state rather than submit to a rival government, and deprive them of its gold reserves.
The other really annoying myth is that the US would (in the event of the British helping the Confederates become independent) be willing to spend the next century pursuing vengeance against Britain. After all, the US helped Panama become independent from Columbia, and Columbia didn't do that.
That is a myth which needs to die too. Anglo-American relations here are sure to be strained for the next half century, but the US is going to have far better things to do rather than pursue vengeance against Britain for this war. While you can kiss the 'special relationship' of TTL goodbye until maybe the 1960s-1970s, it's not going to be Washington plotting on how to screw over London at every turn from 1862 to doomsday. Nations just can't afford to hold eternal grudges.
Hell, geopolitics had France and Britain (France under a Bonaparte no less) fighting against Russia not fifty years after the end of the Napoleonic wars! Truth is stranger than fiction.