A great way to view history...looking at how it MIGHT have been. I must say that I felt some of the stories were inappropriate. I'd rather it had stuck to how things could have been different, but all-in-all an interesting way to look at history that should be done more often. ( )

A collection of short stories that I assumed from the title would be about alternate Battles of Gettysburg. I was only partly correct, some of the stories were actually about alternate actions during the battle, however a bunch just assumed an alternate outcome and dealt with some future time where the CSA had won the war. A number of stories dealt with the assassination of Lincoln in one way or another.

While the first story by Harold Coyle and the last essay by ACW historian and SF writer William Forshen were good, I don't recommend the rest, they were mostly throw away stories from authors I've never heard of with varying degrees of historical inaccuracy. The were also two additional non-fiction essays one of which read like an elementary school text book. And one of which started out poorly, so I skipped it. ( )