McClellan of the Army of the Potomac prepare for his confrontation with Lee, and contributed to the Union's eventual victory at the Battle of Antietam. Historians believe their find helped General George B. Turtledove creates a divergence at September 10, 1862, when three Union soldiers do not find a copy of Special Order 191, as they in fact did historically. Army of Northern Virginia's invasion of the Union through the border state Maryland in September 1862. Lee's Special Order 191, which detailed the C.S. The secondary name is derived from General Robert E. Subsequent books are built on imagining events based on this alternate timeline. In the series, the Confederate States defeats the United States of America in 1862, thereby making good its attempt at secession and becoming an independent nation. The period addressed in the series begins during the Civil War and spans nine decades, up to the mid-1940s. The Southern Victory series or Timeline-191 is a series of eleven alternate history novels by author Harry Turtledove, beginning with How Few Remain (1997) and published over a decade.
successfully breaking away from the U.S., see American Civil War alternate histories. For the alternate history concept of the C.S.
