YMMV / Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

• Alas, Poor Villain: John Breckinridge's fate of execution at the hands of the Junta garnered several statements of sympathy for him, even if he was the leader of the slaveholding rebels.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: John C. Breckinridge becomes this within the story. To the Union, he's the leader of the rebels and, as such, the main representative of their hateful ideology; the aristocrat planters see in him someone that curtails their power and ability to do whatever they want; the Southern poor see him as their protector from the predations of the planter aristocracy; the Black slaves see him as their “enslaver-in-chief”.
• Anti-Climax: After years of bloody fighting, the last battle of the war between the Army of the Susquehanna and Jackson's much reduced in strength army is almost a sad last note.
• Catharsis Factor: The end of the war comes off as this on both sides of the fourth wall.
• Complete Monster: Despite his brief mention, James H Hammond stands out as quite possibly the vilest Confederate of them all, an achievement of great difficulty, if not any honor.
• Memetic Badass: Abraham Lincoln, who not only led the Union through a bloody civil war, he also hammers assassins with large logs and then eats them for breakfast.
• Older Than They Think: The plot point of Toombs being the arch-villain in the role of a leader of a slavocratic rebellion that this timeline utilized is actually one that the author had planned to pursue in a previous timeline of theirs.