If the South Had Won the Civil War Author:MacKinlay Kantor This is the way it might have happened! General Robert E. Lee won the battle of Gettysburg. General Grant was dead, his army had surrendered. Abraham Lincoln and his family fled Washington by night. President Jefferson Davis made ready to move into his offices in the White House. MacKinlay Kantor tells in fascinating, imaginative detail, just wh... more »at would have happened IF THE SOUTH HAD WON THE CIVIL WAR.
An interesting book, though it spends too much time on pre-war politics. Interesting projections about the American west, Hawaii & Alaska too. The interesting stuff is near the end about how aa agrarian south (Confederate States of America), industrial north (United States of America) and fiercely independent Republic of Texas, work together in World wars I & II. It ends in a kind of surprise which I won't spoil here. It was an ok read with a good introduction by the master of alternate histories, Harry Turtledove.