Reddit reviews How Few Remain (Southern Victory)

The Guns of the South and especially How Few Remain completely changed my view of Abe Lincoln.

The Guns of the South is less important as it's much more fictionalized and involves time-travel. How Few Remain is a sort-of sequel, in that it assumes that the South was able to successfully repel the Northern Armies until an eventual armistice without the time-travel from the first book, which didn't result the events that led to the assassination of Lincoln.

Lincoln then becomes the leader of the American Socialists. I first learned in that book, because Harry Turtledove has a PhD in history, that Lincoln was an avid reader of Karl Marx as a contemporary thinker and defender of workers' rights.

I won't give away more because that's basically the back-cover version, but it's an excellent treatment of how things might have turned out differently.

The WW1 and WW2 books that follow in the "what if the south wasn't reabsorbed into the north?" timeline are also worth a read. In WW2 aliens get involved so it becomes significantly less historical, but the WW1 books are great in their discussion of early 1900s European politics.

Harry Turtledove wrote a series about this the first book was called How Few Remain It went from the civil war through the end of WWII. One of my favorite things in the series was about Custer.

How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove is the start of a series in which the Confederate won the US Civil War.

In Alan Smales' A Clash of Eagles, Rome never fell.

Here is a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Victory (wikipedia article listing all the books and the overarching plot) http://www.amazon.com/How-Few-Remain-Southern-Victory/dp/0345406141 (amazon for the first book)

IIRC, it starts about 20 years after the war ended, and the USA and CSA are separate nations. I don't remember if there's a second war then, but eventually they get into WWI on opposite sides. I oughta see if I still have any of the books.

Here's the first one

Here is the first one.

I'd highly recommend this

Harry Turtledove has written several books about exactly that. They're fiction, but I found them very good reads.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Few-Remain-Harry-Turtledove/dp/0345406141/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_10