Good to see two updates!
And the tensions caused by more and more militant armed groups, along with the emergence of a White-supremacist Democratic Social Party for the poorer classes, will make for a Russian Civil War thirty years earlier in the South, as much as the OTL sieges of Petersburg and Vicksburg were precursors of trench warfare - given the prevalent violence, does some railroad and factories have established paramilitary groups to protect their properties? I could well see the Georgia Mississippi Railway Company using militias to fight against desperadoes, non-Confederate Natives and pro-Union guerillas.
If we had to add to this the restarting of the War Between the States, the CSA is in deep problems.