A Southron Success

Over the course of the Civil War, many events could've ushered a Confederate Victory. From Special Order 191 to a failure to burn Atlanta before the 1864 election, none can compare to what the general public wanted. Most were tired of seeing their young kids boys coming home dead or almost and hundreds of names in the obituary from every lose. In our timeline in the American Revolution, The United Kingdom, after 6 years of fighting in a colony overseas, they finally relented after the Yorktown failure and gave the United States it's freedom. 
What if due to a number of factors, from the execution of Order 191, an earlier 1862 assassination of Abe Lincoln, to the failure of the March to the sea and the Vicksburg campaigns, the Confederacy is victorious after 3 years of fighting in 1864. Even with the separation between the two states, civilians from both sides began being more open to the other nation. Eventually as the 20th century begins, they soon became more and more as allies, and fight side by side against an earlier WW1 between a France looking to defeat its twin enemies of Britain and Germany, The Russia Empire trying to launch an expansion into British Canada and The Cascadia Regions, and The Austrian Empire seeking to win back southern German land. 
Now in the year 2016, 150 years after the Confederacy became independent, the upcoming US presidential Elections might decide the fate of the confederacy as the 27th Confederate Election soon will begin in 2017. Would these nations remain as allies, or will the Divided House finally fall.
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== Timeline ==
=== 1861-1866: Civil War ===
==== Point Of Divergence ====
On February 6th, 1862, The Battle of Ft Henry soon commenced, with The Army of Central Kentucky under Lloyd Tilghman against the Army of the Tennessee (District of Cairo) commanded by Ulysses S. Grant and The Western Flotilla Navy commanded by Andrew H. Foote. As the battled turned in Union favor, a stray bullet from a troop's gun flew through the air, striking Ulysses S. Grant in the leg. Like Albert Sidney Johnston's death later that year, he soon died days later in Washington DC. He was one of the many dead in the war, yet his death would change the Civil War, America, and the world Forever.
==== Success at Antietam and Siege of Washington D.C. ====
While delivering carefully wrapped orders to General Daniel Hill, a courier dropped a case containing the orders near Fredrick, Maryland. A group of trailing Confederate Lieutenant soon discovered them and delivered it to Daniel Hill themselves. Hill was grateful of the return and made preparations for the battle coming soon. On September 17th, 1862, The Army of the Potomac launch an attack on Antietam, surprising the Army of Northern Virginia and beginning the Battle of Antietam. Even with initial Union success, the Armies of Major General Stonewall Jackson and D. H. Hill's soon encircled the town before crushing the army, taking General McClellan and Other Soldiers as POWs. The disaster caused Lincoln to put Henry Halleck as Chief in staff of the Union army in desperation. 
After the disaster of Antietam, the citizens of the Union soon began lobbying for peace. After taking the sleepy town of Gettysburg in November, they soon encircled a large portion of Delaware, Maryland, and all of DC, threatening the Capital. Due to this, Lincoln attempted to escape to Pennsylvania, but was assassinated by a Confederate Sniper on November 21, 1862. The event broke moral for the nation and led to Democratic support rising in the midterm elections, where they won 87 seats in the senate, preventing or delaying newly inaugurated President Hannibal Hamlin from doing important decisions like emancipation or getting aid for the Mississippi River campaign. 
The Siege soon ended on November 30th, when Confederate Troops led by Robert E. Lee stormed the Capital. They soon raided and burned the city alight. In a newsletter by Franklin Douglas the next week "Almost 50 years ago, the City of Washington and the capital building was burned brightly into the night, and now the Confederates had did the same to the whole of the city. Leaving nothing but a burned city and a stub known as 'The Washington Memorial'. As American's Lincoln said that 'I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection.' Yet this event will never be forgiven in the heart of Every American." 
==== Fall of New Mexico Territory and Collapse of Union Mississippi campaign ====
Due to the Situation out east stabilizing in the Confederates' favor, General James Longstreet was moved west to Trans-Mississippi, where the situation was more dire. Vicksburg was going to be captured and Arizona Territory fell apart the year prier. Longstreet soon launch an operation to cut off the Northern and Southern advancement before capturing Vicksburg. 
On January 6, 1863, James Longstreet lead a force to the city of Memphis in the North while General Mansfield Lovell with Department Number One launches an assault on Baton Rouge in the South. After 2 weeks of fighting, both the North and South were cut off from the Union. This disaster caused Republican Support to plummet as a result and making the Democratic Party rise to power in both Local and National Power as the Army of Tennessee led by William Sherman gets crushed on both sides and stuck in an unforgiving Confederate Siege. 
The next phase of the theater is the invasion of New Mexico and reestablishment of Arizona Territory. The Invasion was launch on May 15 with the newly created Army of Texas as they rush West through the Territory. With materials from trading with Mexico in secret, they soon successfully invaded Mesilla and reestablished Arizona Territory. As more and more successes by the CSA happen, European powers started to recognize the Nation. On June 25, New Mexico Territory was invaded by the Union and it's northern half was annexed by its neighbors as the Southern half was own by the Confederacy. 
As the last half of the Year started, President Hannibal Hamlin started plans for a daring attempt at ending the war and securing a Union victory in the war. As French and British involvement starts to become more possible, The Union began a attempt to annihilate the Confederacy forever. 
==== March to the sea and last ditch effort by Union to Win the War ====
On August 8, The Army of the Cumberland led by Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans launches a simultaneous invasion of the Mississippi River and Georgia to split the Confederacy in three and secure the Republican vote in 1864. The Union had major initial success, with a Siege on Atlanta and attack on Vicksburg caused Confederate troops to move East and caused a desperate defense of New Mexico. On December 25, Rosecrans soon launched an offensive to connect both sides of his army together. This caused General Robert E. lee to move south and cutoff both armies in Arkansas to the west and Tennessee to the East, devastating supply lines along the way. 
This undeterred Rosecrans, who continued his Georgia campaign as a last ditch effort of winning. The invasion of Georgia soon led to cutting Georgia in two, but the greater CSA is connected by a small part in the north. They soon move northward to Charleston, Carolina, where he Confederacy moved the Government to honor when South Carolina succeeded as the first state. They finally encircled the city but with Atlanta being encircled and supplies being given by sea. On February 6, 1864, The Army of North Virginia launched a successful offensive and collapsed the Georgia campaign, finally destroying Union moral in the War.
==== Intervention in War and Aftermath ====
After a few months, Britain and France soon intervened and recognized the Confederacy and threaten to destroy the Union blockade. This forced President Hannibal Hamlin to grant diplomatic recognition to the Confederate States. The Treaty of Charleston formerly ended the war on November 2nd, gaining official independence for the nation in full, the distain of the Union.