The Victorious Opposition
Author	Harry Turtledove
Cover artist	Big Bot Design
Language	English
Series	Southern Victory
Genre(s)	Alternate History
Publisher	Del Rey
Publication date	2003
Preceded by	The Center Cannot Hold
Followed by	Return Engagement

American Empire: The Victorious Opposition is a novel by Harry Turtledove published by Del Rey in 2003. It the third volume of the American Empire trilogy, which is itself part of the larger Southern Victory series. It begins on March 5, 1934, the day after Jake Featherston is inaugurated as President of the Confederate States, and ends on June 22, 1941, the beginning of the Second Great War.

CharactersEdit

• Clarence Potter
• Chester Martin
• Anne Colleton
• Irving Morrell
• Abner Dowling
• Mary McGregor
• Jake Featherston
• Sylvia Enos
• Scipio
• Flora Blackford
• Jefferson Pinkard
• Sam Carsten
• Jonathan Moss
• Hipolito Rodriguez
• Cincinnatus Driver
• Lucien Galtier
• Nellie Jacobs
• George Enos, Jr.
• Leonard O'Doull
• Armstrong Grimes

v · d · e Southern Victory Books How Few Remain The Great War (American Front • Walk in Hell • Breakthroughs) American Empire (Blood and Iron • The Center Cannot Hold • The Victorious Opposition) Settling Accounts (Return Engagement • Drive to the East • The Grapple • In at the Death) 1 of 11 Add photo POV Characters Reggie Bartlett • Flora Blackford • Sam Carsten • Samuel Clemens • Anne Colleton • Tom Colleton • George Custer • Frederick Douglass • Jerry Dover • Abner Dowling • Cincinnatus Driver • George Enos • George Enos, Jr. • Sylvia Enos • Jake Featherston • Lucien Galtier • Armstrong Grimes • Thomas Jackson • Roger Kimball • Abraham Lincoln • Cassius Madison • Paul Mantarakis • Chester Martin • Arthur McGregor • Gordon McSweeney • Irving Morrell • Jonathan Moss • Leonard O'Doull • Jefferson Pinkard • Mary McGregor Pomeroy • Michael Pound • Clarence Potter • Stephen Ramsay • Hipolito Rodriguez • Jorge Rodriguez • Theodore Roosevelt • Scipio • Alfred von Schlieffen • Nellie Semphroch • Jeb Stuart Countries United States • Confederate States • Canada • Mexico • Republic of Quebec • Britain • France • Russia • Germany • Austria-Hungary • Ottoman Empire • Japan Events War of Secession • Second Mexican War • Great War • Pacific War • Second Great War Politicial Parties Democratic Party • Socialist Party • Republican Party • Whig Party • Radical Liberal Party • Freedom Party