How Few Remain

How Few Remain

Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author	Harry Turtledove
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Southern Victory Series
Genre	Alternate history
Publisher	Ballantine Books/Del Rey
Publication date	September 8, 1997
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback), eBook
ISBN	(first edition, hardback), (eBook)
OCLC	36798620
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 21
LC Class	PS3570.U76 H69 1997
Followed by	The Great War: American Front

The War of Secession
Part of Southern Victory Series
Date April 12, 1861 to November 4, 1862 Location United States Result Confederate and Allied victory Creation of the Confederate States of America (territory includes 11 states that officially seceded plus Kentucky and Indian Territory) Economic Crash in the United States in 1863
Belligerents
United States	Confederate States  United Kingdom (1862)  France (1862)
Commanders and leaders
Abraham Lincoln Ulysses S. Grant William Sherman George McClellan	Jefferson Davis Robert E. Lee Stonewall Jackson Albert Sidney Johnston Queen Victoria Henry John Temple Napoleon III

Second Mexican War
Part of Southern Victory Series
Date June 25, 1881 to April 22, 1882 Location Principally in California, Utah, Montana, Kentucky, New Mexico, Virginia and Maine Result Confederate and Allied victory Confederate States: The CSA retains Sonora and Chihuahua as recognized territory. United States: The United States cedes northern Maine to the United Kingdom, which becomes part of the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
Belligerents
United States Comanche Indians	Confederate States  United Kingdom  France  Canada Mexico Mormon Rebels Kiowa Indians Apache Indians
Commanders and leaders
James G. Blaine William Rosecrans John Pope Theodore Roosevelt George Armstrong Custer Thomas Custer  † Orlando B. Willcox William Sherman James Duane Alfred Sully Henry Welton Peter Hains William Foulke Archibald Creel  † Eb Saul Berryman Virgil Earp  (POW) Theron Winship  (POW) Algernon van Nuys  † Joseph Little  † Neufeld	James Longstreet Stonewall Jackson Jeb Stuart  † Edward Alexander Peter Turney Calhoun Ruggles Luke Tiernan Brien William Elliott Jethro Weathers Overall Tinker  † Steinfeldt  † Queen Victoria Charles George Gordon Maximilian II Enrique Gutierrez Satanta Geronimo

How Few Remain is a 1997 alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove. It is the first part of the Southern Victory Series saga, which depicts a world in which the Confederacy won the American Civil War. It is similar to his earlier novel The Guns of the South, but unlike the latter, it is a purely historical novel with no fantastical or science fiction elements.The book received the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 1997, and was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1998. It covers the Southern Victory Series Earth period of history from 1862 and from 1881 to 1882.

Confederate and Allied victory

The point of divergence occurs on September 10, 1862, during the American Civil War. In actual history, a Confederate messenger lost General Robert E. Lee's Special Order 191, which detailed Lee's plans for the Invasion of the North. The orders were soon found by Union soldiers, and using them, George McClellan was able to fight the Army of Northern Virginia to a draw at the Battle of Antietam, after which it returned to Virginia.

In How Few Remain, the orders are instead recovered by a trailing Confederate soldier. McClellan is caught by surprise, enabling Lee to lead the Army of Northern Virginia towards Philadelphia. Lee forces McClellan into battle on the banks of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania and destroys the Army of the Potomac in the Battle of Camp Hill on October 1. Lee goes on to capture Philadelphia, earning the Confederate States of America diplomatic recognition from both the United Kingdom and France, thus winning the war (which is known as the War of Secession in the alternate timeline) and independence from the United States on November 4, 1862.