re: Civil War nicknames for SEC states..

Agreed, on the what if's. My point was if Johnston, would have survived and completed a decisive Victory at Shiloh, things would have been much different. Grant would have been weaken, and the Confederates would have been more aggressive in the West, making the taking of Vicksburg, more difficult. More importantly the North would have had to put more resources in the West and would have thus had less resource in the East to fight Lee, and the Army of Northern Virginia.

Another big what if would be if Gen. Stonewall Jackson would not have been Wounded/Killed in the evening of the 2nd day of the battle of Chancellorsville would the Confederates been able to take advantage of there position and push through with a very decisive victory, two Months before Gettysburg.

So many what if's...