In a world where the South won the “War for Southern Independence,” Hodge Backmaker, a northern country bumpkin with academic leanings, makes his way to New York City where he becomes disillusioned, ponders the notions of time and free will, and eventually goes to a communal think-tank where time travel offers him the chance to visit the key Gettysburg battle of the war.
I could say that time is an illusion and that all events occur simultaneously.

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  1. “Bring the Jubilee” by Ward Moore, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1952.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Ward Moore