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List of alternate histories diverging at the American Civil War

List of alternate histories diverging at the American Civil War is a compilation of alternate history fiction whose point of divergence is the American Civil War. These Civil War alternate histories typically focus on a Confederate victory but others focus on scenarios such as a Civil War being averted, British intervention in the conflict, a Union victory occurring under different circumstances, a massive slave revolt occurring without the Emancipation Proclamation, or Lincoln never being assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

Novels

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  • "Hallie Marshall: A True Daughter of the South" by Frank Williams. The earliest Civil War alternate history. Published in 1900.[1]
  • "If the South Had Been Allowed to Go" by Ernest Crosby. Another early Civil War alternate history. Written in December 1903.[2]
  • "If the South Had Won the Civil War" by MacKinlay Kantor. Originally published in Look Magazine in 1960, published as a book in 1961.[3]
  • "If the North Had Won the Civil War" by Andrew J. Heller. A story set in a modern CSA, in which a history professor in the South writes an alternate history in which the North was victorious.
  • "Sidewise in Time" by Murray Leinster. An alternate history in which the South won the American Civil War is briefly touched on, but is not the main focus of the story. Published in 1934.[4]
  • "1862" by Robert Conroy. Published on February 28, 2006.[5]
  • "Bring the Jubilee" by Ward Moore. Published in 1953.[6]
  • "The Shiloh Project" by David Poyer. Published October 1, 1981[7]
  • "Fire on the Mountain" by Terry Bisson. Instead of a Civil War breaking out between North and South there is a massive successful slave revolt in the Deep South with blacks creating their own separate nation called "Nova Africa" which leads to Socialist revolutions in France, the United States, Ireland, and Russia. Published in 1988.[8]
  • "Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War" by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen, and Albert S. Hanser. Published May 1st, 2004.[9]
  • "Grant Comes East" by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen, and Albert S. Hanser. Published April 1, 2005.[10]
  • "Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory" also by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen, and Albert S. Hanser. Published May 16th, 2006.[11]
  • "Gray Victory" by Robert Skimin. Published February 1st, 1981.[12]
  • "The Guns of the South" by Harry Turtledove. Published September 1st, 1993.[13]
  • "A Rebel in Time" by Harry Harrison. Published February 15th, 1983.[14]
  • "The Forest of Time" by Michael F. Flynn, where a war among the Thirteen Colonies directly follows the American Revolution, resulting in a stillborn United States and a perpetually balkanized North America.First published in the June 1987 edition of the magazine Analog.[15]
  • "Russian Amerika" by Stoney Compton. The backstory is only vaguely defined, but the PoD seems to be a CSA victory in the 1860s. Published April 2007.[16]
  • The Southern Victory Series, by Harry Turtledove:[17]
  • "War Between the Provinces" series by Harry Turtledove, a fantasy allegory of the Civil War set in imaginary countries with recognizable analogous characters such as King Avram, General Bart, and General Hesmucet.
    • "Sentry Path". Published 2000.[18]
    • "Marching through Peachtree". First published 2001.[19]
  • "Must and Shall", by Harry Turtledove. First published in 1996.[20] Collected in anthology "Counting Up, Counting Down" in 2005.[21]
  • "Lee at the Alamo" by Harry Turtledove. Story published online on September 7, 2011.[22]
  • "Crosstime Traffic" series by Harry Turtledove. Visits many alternate realities, briefly mentioning a few where the South won the Civil War. The fourth volume The Disunited States of America focuses on a world where there were frequent small localized wars between states (e.g. Ohio versus Virginia, Massachusetts versus Rhode Island) but no single big civil war.
  • The "If It Had Happened Otherwise" anthology contains two relevant entries: "If Lee Had NOT Won the Battle of Gettysburg" by Winston Churchill, and "If Booth had Missed Lincoln" by Milton Waldman. First published 1931.[29]
  • "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter", by Seth Grahame-Smith, re-casts the Civil War as a war on vampires using slaves as a food source. First published March 2nd, 2010.[30] Adapted into a film in 2012 starring Benjamin Walker as the titular presidential vampire hunter.[31]
  • The "Stars and Stripes trilogy" by Harry Harrison, in which the Trent affair and the death of Prince Albert (the husband of Queen Victoria) elicits a war between the Union and Britain, eventually seeing America reunited under one government.
    • "Stars and Stripes Forever". Published October 5th, 1998.[32]
    • "Stars and Stripes in Peril". Published November 28th, 2000.[33]
    • "Stars and Stripes Triumphant". Published December 2nd, 2003.[34]
  • "Alternate Generals", volume 1 - published July 1st, 1998[35] - contains three US Civil War-related stories:
  • "East of Appomattox" (in Alternate Generals III) by Lee Allred. In the late 1860s, the CSA sends Ambassador Robert E. Lee to London to assure continued British recognition, and he finds unexpected challenges and even unlikelier allies. Published November 28th, 2011.[36]
  • "Alternate Presidents", published February 1992,[37] contains four stories with wildly differing hypothetical US Civil War scenarios: "Chickasaw Slave" by Judith Moffett, "How the South Preserved the Union" by Ralph Roberts, "Now Falls the Cold, Cold Night" by Jack L. Chalker, and "Lincoln's Charge" by Bill Fawcett. In Roberts' and Chalker's entries, the Northern states seek to secede from the Southern-dominated Union.
  • "Dirk Pitt" series: Volume 11: "Sahara" by Clive Cussler. This series recurring theme, wherein the heroes discover an astounding secret history, returns in this novel and involves the Lincoln assassination. It is a brief side plot only tenuously related to the main adventure, and this element is completely left out of the film adaptation of the novel. Published January 11, 2005.[38]
  • "The Lincoln Train" by Maureen F. McHugh, first published in 1995.[39] The story appears in the Nebula Awards anthologies volume 31 (published April 1, 1997),[40] "Alternate Tyrants" (published April 15, 1997),[41] and "Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction" (Published February 1, 2005).[42]
  • "The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln" by Stephen L. Carter. Published July 10, 2012.[43]
  • "If the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost" by James M. McPherson, first printed in What If?, and reprinted in What Ifs? of American History.
  • "Beyond the Wildest Dreams of John Wilkes Booth" by Jay Winik, first printed in What Ifs? of American History. Published January 10, 2003.[44]
  • "The Eternal War (TimeRiders #4)" by Alex Scarrow, in which Britain entered the American Civil War on the side of the Confederacy, turning the war into an unending stalemate. Without the United States to challenge its dominance, the British Empire continued to expand, and by 2001 it controls half the world. Published July 14, 2011.[45]
  • "Custer's Last Jump" by Howard Waldrop and various other writers, such as Bruce Sterling and Steven Utley. First published April 1, 2003.[46] Reprinted in numerous anthologies.
  • "Hush My Mouth" by Suzette Haden Elgin, first printed in "Alternative Histories: Eleven Stories of the World as It Might Have Been" in 1986.[47]
  • "All the Myriad Ways" by Larry Niven, with worlds of CSA victory being mentioned only briefly by the narrator in a list of alternate realities known in the story. First published in October 1968.[48]
  • "The Shores of Tomorrow", by David Mason the slave-holding South dominated a technologically backward US from its foundation until the 1940s - when a series of Northern rebellions led to the creation of three Free Republics taking up the interior and leaving the Southrons with "a slave-holding, vice-ridden burned out piece of the coast". Published in 1971 by Lancer Books.[49]
  • "Shattered Nation: An Alternate History of the American Civil War" by Jeffrey Evan Brooks. Published September 24, 2013.[50]
  • "Underground Airlines", by Ben H. Winters, President-elect Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in 1861, and a version of the Crittenden Compromise is adopted preventing the Civil War from occurring; as a result, slavery continues to the present in four southern states (the "Hard Four": Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and a united Carolina); the title refers to the secret network assisting escaping slaves, updated from "Underground Railroad"; the protagonist is a black U.S. Marshal who is forced to work tracking down runaway slaves. First published July 5, 2016.[51]
  • "Britannia's Fist" (trilogy) by Peter Tsouras. England/France enter the War in 1863 when British built warships enter the CSA Navy instead of being seized by British forces before entering Confederate service (as what really happened).
  • "Gettysburg: An Alternate History" by Peter Tsouras. First published in 1997. Republished on February 27, 2007.[55]
  • "Dixie Victorious: An Alternate History of the Civil War" by Peter Tsouras, a compilation of separate alternate history scenarios focusing on the CSA winning. First published January 1, 2006.[56]
  • "By Force of Arms" (published September 17, 2012[57]), "Rebel Empire: A Novel of the Spanish Confederate War" (published December 10, 2013[58]), "Reaping the Whirlwind" (published June 26, 2015[59]), and "Flags & Honor" (published September 30, 2017[60]) by Billy Bennett. A series of books that focus on a victorious CSA that has won the Civil War after the Battle of Gettysburg as well as its subsequent conflict with the USA under William Tecumseh Sherman in the Second American Civil War with aid from the French Empire, war with Spain over the territory of Cuba in 1895 called the Spanish–Confederate War, and an alternate World War I between the "Continental Entente" (consisting of the Confederate States and the French Empire) up against the "Grand Alliance" (consisting of the United States and the British Empire).
  • "Stonewall Goes West: A Novel of the Civil War" (published March 21, 2013[61]) and "Mother Earth, Bloody Ground: A Novel of the Civil War and What Might Have Been" (published May 8, 2014[62]) by R.E. Thomas. Stonewall Jackson takes control of the Army of Tennessee during the Western Theatre of the American Civil War to bolster the Confederacy's chances there.
  • "Confederate States: What Might Have Been" by Roger L. Ransom. Published October 17th, 2006.[63]
  • "The Wild Blue and the Gray" by William Sanders. A Civil War alternate history set during World War I where the Confederate States joins the Allies during World War I. Published in July 1991.[64]
  • "A Southern Yarn" by R.W. Richards, Jeff Bogart, and Nancy Willard-Chang. Robert E. Lee is able to trap Ulysses S. Grant during the Battle of North Anna River. Published July 1, 1990.[65]
  • "The Lost Regiment" series by William R. Forstchen. A Union Army regiment is transported into an alien world who face off against aliens such as the Tugar and the Bantag.
    • "Rally Cry (Lost Regiment #1)", published May 1, 1990.[66]
    • "The Union Forever (Lost Regiment #2)", published February 5, 1991.[67]
    • "Terrible Swift Sword (Lost Regiment #3)", published February 4, 1992.[68]
    • "Fateful Lightning (Lost Regiment #4)", published January 1, 1993.[69]
    • "Battle Hymn (Lost Regiment #5)", published January 1, 1997.[70]
    • "Never Sound Retreat (Lost Regiment #6)", published January 1, 1998.[71]
    • "A Band of Brothers (Lost Regiment #7)", published January 1, 1999.[72]
    • "Men of War (Lost Regiment #8)", published December 1, 1999.[73]
    • "Down to the Sea (Lost Regiment #9)", published December 1, 2000.[74]
  • "Clopton's Short History of the Confederate States of America 1861-1925" by Carole Scott. Published September 8, 2011.[75]
  • "Southern Cross: Annuit Coeptis" by Dorvall and Phillip Renne. Published December 16, 2013.[76]
  • "Confederate Star Rises" by Richard Small. Published December 9, 2012.[77]

Films and Television

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Games

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Comics

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References

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