"A year after the sinking of The Monitor," Henry explained, "Union saboteurs got into a shipyard in Portsmouth, England, and blew up two ironclads being built there for The Confederate Navy.  This enraged The British as thirty shipyard workers died in the explosion.  British troops stationed in Canada came down and reinforced Confederate cities.  They did very little fighting themselves, mainly took guard duty, but it freed Confederate manpower.  They also brought heavy guns, which The Confederacy was in desperate need of.  At The Battle Of Gettysburg those guns enabled The Confederate Forces to devastate The Union Defenders holding a wall as General Pickett's forces charged.  The Union broke and ran.  Washington was besieged, cut off, it couldn't evacuate.  President Lincoln asked for an armistice.  Peace was negotiated, and hostilities between The Confederacy and The Union ceased.  Oh, The Confederacy also made treaties with the Indian tribes in the west, and they assisted in defeating Union forces there.  While The Union after the war broke all the treaties The Confederacy kept its word and protected the Indian tribes from Union aggression, ending at the famous  Battle Of The Little Big Horn, where Confederate and Indian forces wiped out a whole Union Army, establishing the sovereignty of The Indian Nations.  The three nations slowly established peaceful relations with each other, and the situation that we now have came into being...The Alliance Of The Nations Of The Americas."
"Thank you!"  Jeff praised, "You have given me everything I need!"
He looked at the General and muttered "That's IT!  That's the point of diversion!  We've found it!  Those things, those motorized torpedoes, they aren't supposed to exist, they never existed!"
"We'll talk about it later," the General remarked, realizing his son was extremely curious about the conversation, "We'll talk about it later!"
His companion nodded, and the General returned to the mourners wondering if he was to go into the past could he actually change things?  The thought frightened him, it frightened him very much!  Right now he had to think, he DESPERATELY had to think!