Islamic radicals have taken over nearly all countries with a substantial Islamic population, causing world economic collapse through the withholding of oil and committing terrorists attacks. In the year 2022, a Civil War historian is inserted back in time to help the South turn the tide of war and become an independent nation. It has been projected that the South will, with guidance, become a vast and powerful empire that will prevent the takeover of nations by Islamic radicals. See how the main character implements a plan that leads to the defeat of Union General Sherman in Georgia and the ultimate loss of the 1864 election by President Lincoln. This is the one plan that, if implemented, would have most likely led to an independent South.