american civil war

Most of the timelines where the CSA become independent they end up becoming a weak nation or being reabsorbed by the USA. What could be done to make a powerful CSA survive to the modern day?

It is 1852, Salt Lake City. Brigham Young is speaking out endorsing the racist interpretation of the "Mark of Cain" before a congregation. As he speaks, the sound of thunder echoes through the temple; there is a flash of light, a bolt of lightning, and out of the rupture emerges a man in strange...

Was reading this Wiki article the other day and came across this paragraph: What if the Union had taken up John Doughty's idea? How effective would these chlorine gas shells have been? How many could have been produced? Where and when would they have most likely been used? Could the...

What if during the Battle of Cherbourg, Captain John Winslow is gravely wounded and unable to command the ship resulting in his officers, who OTL had begged him to fire upon the British yacht, and the officer's shell the Deerhound? The French ironclad, the Couronne, had escorted the CSS Alabama...

John Brown’s Soul: We Shoulda Hanged Jeff Davis from a Sour Apple Tree, But We Are Marching On -a timeline by demonkangaroo Oho! A Civil War timeline? Eh, not really. I’m not that interested in war in and of itself and there are plenty of actual ACW timelines and threads. Many of them are...

How bad could the violence in the South have gotten after the Civil War? Could it turn into a Rwanda type situation or would things be kept under control before it gets to that point?

Suppose that, due to the political chips falling differently in Kentucky during the volatile time of 1860-61, that Kentucky secedes and joins the Confederacy in April of 1861 along with the other "Upper South" states and thereafter supports the Confederate war effort with pretty much the same...

So where do I begin...so I am making a mod for a game called Darkest Hour, that involves world campaign from 1871-1960s. As such of course alternative history timelines can occur during the play-through - Germany wins the First World War, Austro-Hungarian empire never collapses, British stay out...

One of the more "popular" AH factoids is that Garibaldi offered to fight for the Union in the American Civil War, but was politely rebuffed by Lincoln. Another pop fact is that Russia (article may be editorialized) was diplomatically involved in the war. What other wacky facts are there for AH...

Part I: The Last Hurrah September 8th, 1862 Troy, New York There had been a time, not all that long ago that the citizens of Troy, New York talked about making a real play to move the State Capital the dozen miles up the Hudson to the real engine of the North Country. It was Troy that had the...

I have been doing a little reading about American Civil War, and only when I dug more deeply I realized how much was South inferior to the North in industrial capabilities. They were simply outmached in industry, military and industrial manpower and in some cases agricultural production because...

Hello people! I've been a fan of AH.com for a while now, and I felt I should contribute with some ideas of my own. I am a junior in high school about to go into AP testing while simultaneously working towards Eagle in Boy Scouts. I am interested in history, so alternate history seems like a fun...

Chapter 1: To Light a Fire under Her "We will wrap the whole world in flames! No power is so remote that she will not feel the fire of our battle and not be burned by our conflagration!" United States Secretary of State William H. Seward as overheard at a diplomatic function by William H...

Chapter One How a Little Napoleon Was Drowned Taken from "A Revolution at Sea: How the Confederate States Navy changed the making of war at sea" by Admiral Sir James Sinclair-Davies RN KCMG Portsmouth Press 1978 “The enmity between the Secretary of the Navy, Stephen Mallory and the...