I was just wondering how the CW would've been affected had certain key individuals on both sides, in positions of command, decided to stay loyal to their places of birth and their corresponding political allegiances (a la Robert E. Lee, JEB Stuart and Thomas J. Jackson with Virginia, and Nathan Bedford Forrest with Tennessee), instead of deciding to make up their minds for which side to fight based on other loyalites. Like David Glasgow Farragut, Winfield Scott and George Thomas, all of whom were actually native-born Southerners, but committed for the North, and Pennsylvanian George C. Pemberton for the South due to his marriage to a Southern woman IIRC and his hatred of blacks and abolitionists. WI these generals had decided to stay loyal to their respective states of birth ? There'd be for starters no "Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead !" at Mobile Bay, no 'Anaconda Plan' 3-pronged strategy to beat the South, and no 'Rock of Chickamauga', and the siege of Vicksburg may've gone differently with somebody on the CS side other than Pemberton in command. Can anybody think of any other significant effects in this regards ?