Really great and interesting stuff. I would suggest modifying the title a little to more clearly explain the TL (And Then Came Spoons: ...) as more people will read it then.
I can't see it happening. Britain may not have hated the United States enough to support the Confederacy outright, but certainly they didn't like them enough to waste their own resources helping to put down the South either.
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War by...
Since the sixteenth century, the Tokugawa Shoguns had been at the top of a feudal power structure and the effective rulers of the Japanese archipelago. The daimyos, the local magnates and feudal lords, exercised power in their local domains on the Shogun’s behalf. The Emperor and the imperial...
North America after the formation of Canada, 1870
Some notes on previous two chapters:
NYC really did see a pretty bad sectarian riot in 1870, but ITTL things are much worse. There were no Draft Riots in 1863 due to the lack of Irish "off the boats" for the previous 2 years and an increased...
Across the northern border of the United States in the late 1860s were the disparate colonies and possessions of British North America. Upon the outbreak of war with the United States in 1861, all of these colonies had been suddenly thrust onto the frontlines of the conflict. While with British...
I've basically finished the next bit about Canada, and I'll post that soon. After that I'll take a short break from writing this.
Britain's diplomatic situation is perhaps not as bad as it appears here. None of three great powers of the League are set against Britain, in fact rather the...
Anson Burlingame, 19th President of the United States
The US presidential election of 1860 was a revolution, whereas the 1864 election was a counter-revolution. The election of 1868, on the other hand, was a miracle. Anson Burlingame had pulled off a Republican victory that had seemed...
I don't think I've ever seen a TL with a long-lasting Napoleon III either. For the time being, there's no imminent danger to the Bonapartes without an equivalent to the Franco-Prussian War. However, even without that there was a republican opposition in France so things may change in the...
The 1860s and 70s were a time of great change. National identities were in flux, many people and regions having conflicting loyalties which pulled them towards different forms of nationalism, regionalism and political ideology. This was just as true in Europe as it was in North America.
In...
Thank you for your interesting and detailed response. I think your take is a highly plausible series of events both for Lee's somewhat less illustrious career and for events in Kentucky and West Virginia. I'm tempted to go back to the first update an add a few extra paragraphs to flesh out the...