Montgomery

Montgomery is the capital of the state of Alabama and is the county seat of Montgomery County.As of the 2010 Census, Montgomery had a population of 205,764. It is the second-largest city in Alabama, after Birmingham, and the 103rd largest in the United States. From February 1861 until May of the same year, Montgomery was the capital of the Confederate States, before the government relocated to Richmond, Virginia.

Literary comment
Montgomery's status as the first Confederate capital holds true in all Harry Turtledove timelines with a Point of Divergence after 1861, and probably in "Lee at the Alamo" as well. This brief period of Montgomery's history in referenced on several occasions in The Guns of the South.