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A classic of AH, right up there with the Second World War. The most popular ideas pivot around the Confederate States of America winning the American Civil War - as VoCSe once put it, “The most original What If ever”. Done to death as a topic of AH, threads nonetheless still crop up about it, and occasionally a new idea is produced.

• Lee's Lost Orders aren't lost - Southern Victory series by Harry Turtledove
• ASB intervention by future racists - The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove
• CSA wins Gettysburg by taking Little Round Top - Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore
• CSA wins Gettysburg by maneuvering and capturing the Union supply dump - Gettysburg by Newt Gingrich, with sequels Grant Comes East and Never Call Retreat
• The Laird Rams cause war between the Union and the British and French Empires. Russia allies with the Union - Britannia's Fist by Peter G. Tsouras

• Earlier
• Later
• 1850
• 1854
• 1864
• 1868
• 1869
• 1880s or 1890s (!)
• Zachary Taylor and the Civil War
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• No American Civil War (1)
• No American Civil War (2)
• No ACW, what happens with slavery?
• If the ACW was averted indefinitely, how would the Northern states developed ?
• WI: No Fort Sumter ?
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• Lincoln's presidency without a secession
• WI: All slave states secede
• WI: Union troops in Texas (to prevent secession)
• Texas remains part of the Union (1)
• Texas remains part of the Union (2)
• Texas remains part of the Union (3)
• Texas Secession PODs
• If no Fort Sumter, does Upper South secede ?
• Virginia decides to stay in the union
• A Virginia independent of the Union and Confederacy
• Border States join CSA
• Maryland secedes (1)
• Maryland secedes (2)
• Maryland secedes (3)
• Confederate Missouri
• Military strategy with a Confederate Maryland
• Plausibility check: Western states of the Union secede (but don't join the CSA)
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• First Shot Over Texas
• Missouri State Guard more successful
• Possibility of a Union victory at First Bull Run ? (1)
• Possibility of a Union victory at First Bull Run ? (2)
• WI Leonidas Polk doesn't enter Kentucky ?
• Confederacy honors Kentucky and Missouri neutrality
• Battle of Yorktown in 1862
• Peninsular Campaign Succeeds
• "TL-191 Mark II": a lengthy Confederate victory timeline starting in a "Super-Perryville"
• Vicksburg captured in 1862
• Lee does not invade Pennsylvania
• Impact of CSA victory at Gettysburg
• Effect of a Confederate victory at Gettysburg on the 1864 elections
• WI the CS Navy held Mobile Bay ?
• The Battle of the Crater successfully breaking the Confederate lines around Petersburg (1)
• The Battle of the Crater successfully breaking the Confederate lines around Petersburg (2)
• WI Battle of Franklin not botched ?
• Confederate guerillas after Appomatox
• Alternate Battles of the Civil War
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• WI John Brown was (at least initially) successful at Harper's Ferry ? (1)
• WI John Brown was (at least initially) successful at Harper's Ferry ? (2)
• WI John Brown was (at least initially) successful at Harper's Ferry ? (3)
• WI John Brown tried in a federal court ?
• WI Robert E. Lee Stays Entirely Neutral in the Civil War ?
• Challenge: Robert E. Lee fights for the Union
• WI Garfield dies at Shiloh
• WI: Bragg resignd from the Army of Tennessee in 1863
• WI Joseph Johnston wasn't replaced in July 1864 ?
• WI Jefferson Davis as Confederate General, not President ?
• WI a different Confederate president?
• Lincoln assassinated at Fort McNair
• WI: Meade dies at Gettysburg
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• Ways for CSA to win the Civil War ?
• An essay on why the capture of Washington D.C. by Southern forces is extremely unlikely or impossible, courtesy of Amerigo Vespucci
• A quicker Union victory
• What would a Confederate "Fabian Strategy" have looked like ?
• Plausibility check: Confederate resistance movement ?
• Official "Did the Confederacy Have a Chance to Win the American Civil War ?" Thread
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Numerous ACW scenarios involve foreign intervention by European powers, usually on the side of the CSA. The most common of these is the Trent Affair - the taking of Confederate diplomats from the neutral British ship RMS Trent by Union Navy forces - instead of being smoothed over as one of the last acts of Prince Albert, turning into a war between the USA and the British Empire, sometimes also including Napoleon III's France as an ally.

• The USN beats the RN in 1862
• Discussion of the aftermath if Britain had beat the USA in the war
• General discussion of a British intervention in 1862 over Trent
• Timeline and discussion about the Trent War itself by 67th Tigers
• British intervention in 1863 leads to an early Great War
• AHC/WI: British join ACW, US still wins
• British, French and Russian intervention
• A Realistic British Intervention in the ACW
• The UK sides with the Union in the ACW
• Challenge: Bring Japan into the American Civil War
• Challenge: Prussia visibly supports the Union in the American Civil War
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• Most detailed discussion of the Confederate States of America is filed under Confederate States of America PODs.
• On Mexico
• On Canada
• On slavery in the USA
• On Arkansas
• On the Virgin Islands
• On the development of southern Florida
• On US foreign policy
• On US culture
• On Sports
• On the building of the Panama Canal
• On the US flag
• Results of CSA victory
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• Plausibility check: A "Velvet Civil War" ?
• Steampunk Confederate Victory TL
• What would aeroplane use in the American Civil War be like ?
• An extremely brief US Civil War
• The "Little-by-little Emancipator"
• DBWI: Abraham Lincoln wasn't killed by a bear
• WI: Abe Lincoln killed in a duel in 1842
• Plausibility check: If the ACW ends in 1862, does West Virginia still split ?
• An extended TL: The Union wins by November of 1864, this produces a world where Russia is a Fascist Italy on steroids and the United States is its major rival in World War II
• WI: President Lincoln commits suicide? (Immediate answer: he wouldn't.)
• WI the CSA adopts scorched-earth tactics?
• ASB WI: A Remington 700 is ISOTed to the American Civil War (to April 13th 1863)
• Austrian Lorenz rifles more common than Enfields during US Civil War ?
• Larger state of Texas and its effects on the ACW
• WI Modern medicine in the Civil War ?
• Bows and Arrows in the Civil War
• American Civil War with cartridge rifles
• Plausibility check: Foreign volunteers in the US Civil War go on to become leaders of their country ?
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