Some of the Confederacy's best men, including Dick Taylor and Henry Allen, will probably be content superintending their modernized, management-dependent Louisiana sugar-plantations and sitting in the Baton Rouge legislature as before. Braxton Bragg is another, but he'd be well-suited for the post of Inspector-General upon Samuel Cooper's retirement, if a bugbear for Confederate officers everywhere. Taylor, an arch-conservative if there ever was one in America, considering his postbellum career IOTL, would make for a most colorful C.S. ambassador in Washington, especially one caught in the malaise of "Hard Feelings" north of the Potomac. He was a massive observer of people and events and was adept in attempting "backroom-bargaining" as a Louisiana State senator, delegate to the 1861 Charleston, S.C., convention for the Democratic nomination, in parleying with Andrew Johnson on behalf of Jeff. Davis (his brother-in-law) and other Confederate prisoners, and as a Democratic Party "insider" throughout the whole trauma of Reconstruction. He was especially close with the Manhattan Club, including Samuel L. M. Barlow, whom I understand is a veritable Martin Bormann in the McClellan White House. Later on, he impressed considerable, if brief, influence upon disillusioned Henry Adams, another colonial scion, as an elite guest in the latter's Washington salon. I'm pretty sure it was Taylor, through his spleen-venting conversations and memoir, who inspired Adams to write the anonymous novel Democracy, at least partly.