civil war

Most people often take the re-election of a wartime incumbent as granted. Such was not really the case with Abraham Lincoln, as the Union Army's performance could and did affect the election results. A defeat at the Wilderness Campaign or Atlanta could easily hand over the election to McClellan...

Title is the question. I was inspired by playing the 1864 mod on the New Campaign Trail. OTL the Civil War began to turn heavily in the Union's favor in 1864, particularly when Sherman captured Atlanta. The Democrats nominated George McClellan, a pro-Civil War Democrat, but had a Copperhead...

What would a Civil War in which both the Union and the Confederacy avoid the blatant mistakes they made look like? (Obviously firing on Fort Sumter doesn't count) Was the war drawn out by Union blunders? Did the South have a chance of winning quickly? How would keep selling cotton in Europe...

I'm a big fan of westerns like The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Even if it his historically inaccurate. So I'd like to create a challenge to make an ATL in which the events shown in the film would be more plausible. The major inaccuracy is how the Civil War is portrayed in the film. The plot...

Pseudo-Marius, as the posthumous nickname indicates, was a man who claimed to be the grandson of the famous Roman Gaius Marius. He was active during the dictatorship of Julius Caesar and in the immediate aftermath, where he was executed by Antony. Pseudo-Marius attempted to position himself as...

If France had not become a republic in 1848 but remained a monarchy would King Louis Philippe II have become,IOTL participated in the American Civil War on the side of the Union,if he had come to power would he still have helped the country?Would the British have stood by and watched?

So inspired by some only half-serious conversation over on the Your least favourite AH tropes & motifs thread over in Non-Pol Chat lamenting the lack of Mormon Taiping Rebellion TLs . So your challenge here is that with a PoD after 1770, craft a scenario in which the United States is torn...

What if at the time when the noninterventionist United States was on a verge of entering WWI against Germany in early 1917 after the Zimmerman Telegraph incident, the public reaction despite the newspaper and American propaganda attempting to rally up support somehow in this alternate scenario...

"No Democrat has a right to refuse his services when his country calls" David Allen Smalley, delegate from Vermont to the 1856 Democratic National Convention. The Candidates. On February 22nd 1856...

Preface: “We know of Jubal Early’s role from Bull Run to Fisher’s Hill, or do we? How can we explain his rise from mere regimental to corps and independent army commander? Was he a professional soldier because he went to West Point, or was his prewar duality of soldier and lawyer simply...

"I've known Mr. Lincoln a longer time than you have, or than the country has. He'll come out all right, and we will all stand by him." - Stephen Douglas concerning Lincoln's stance against the Secession Crisis, 1861. Stephen Douglas is historically known as Lincoln's rival, as a defender of...

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. - Robert E. Lee It's been a while, but I have been busy working on life and other projects... this is one such project I have been working since March. So, what is this timeline? In short, The Rebel...

Currently working on a tl were the American Civil War goes global. Anybody have some ideas for good and realistic PODs to make the civil war into a World War Lite?

So, the 14th Amendment was probably the most significant of the Reconstruction amendments to be ratified after the Civil War. Section 3 of the 14th amendment deals with disqualifying US government officials who sided with the CSA from holding public. The text of Section 3 is the following...

Okay so this started from a conversation I was having with a friend about the upcoming Victoria 3 and the American Civil War, so sorry if this is a bit disjointed. This isn't a fully developed TL, a WI, or an AHC, it's just a sort of loose idea I had that I wanted to start about. The basic...

Lovell Rousseau was a Union General from Kentucky who apparently was one of the potential running mates of Abraham Lincoln. What if he was chosen and became President after the assassination of Lincoln? Would he be better than Andrew Johnson? How different would the United States be?

Warsaw - April 27, 1937 In a ceremony before a crowd of thousands in the National Army Stadium, influential Romani leader Janusz Kwiek is crowned "King of the Gypsies" by the Archbishop of Warsaw, taking the royal name of Janos I and announcing his intention to establish a homeland for the...

So as we all know the rather misnamed American Civil War, which almost led to the disintegration of the American Republic (though even then it's arguable that's also a misnomer, the structure being closer to a confederation) from which it did not really recover until the latter half of the 20th...

Eritrea and South Sudan are known for being the only internationally recognized breakaway African nations and for their poor human rights/development records. Despite surface similarity, the nations have developed on very different trajectories post independence (overcentralized v...

Say the 1861 newspapers' headlines of "on to Richmond" came true, and First Bull Run was a Union victory, with full victory following soon afterwards. What would be the political and social aftermath? Confederate President Davis was present at Bull Run, so supposing he was captured, nominal...