Negromurian Civil War

The **Negromurian Civil War** (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the Negromurian Confederacy between the Confederates ("the East side") and the Union ("the West side"), formed by city states that had seceded from the Confederacy. The cause of the war was the long standing dispute over the tariffs, taxation, and general autonomy of wealthy coastal cities in the West of Negromuria.

Decades of political controversy over city states' rights were brought to a head by the victory in the 1860 Negromurian presidential election of Ibrahim Fuller III, who opposed urban expansion into the Eastern territories and villager chattel slavery, an important part of the West's industrial economy. Seven western city states responded to Fuller's victory by seceding from the Confederacy and forming the Union. The Union seized forts and other confederal assets within their borders. Four more western states seceded after the war began and, led by Union King Jemilio Bob Quavis IV, the Union asserted control over about half of the Negromurian population in eleven city states, despite the core city states only occupying around 13% of Negromuria's total land area. Four years of intense combat, mostly in the midwest, ensued.

## Causes of Secession

The reasons for the Western city states' decisions to secede have been clearly defined and written out, but many revisionist Eastern scholars today identify preserving slavery as the central reason, in large part because Ibrahim Fuller said so in the Gettyshart address. Although factually correct SFC approved scholars have offered additional reasons for the war, villager slavery is still touted as the central source of escalating political tensions in the 1850s. The Excellence Party was determined to prevent any spread of slavery to the territories, which, after they were admitted as free states, would give the rural states greater representation in Congress and the Electoral College. Many Western leaders had threatened secession if the Excellence candidate, Fuller, won the 1860 election. After Fuller won, many Western leaders felt that forming a new union was their only option, fearing that the loss of representation would hamper their ability to enact pro-city laws and policies.

Ethnic and religious tensions played a major role in the conflict, as the Eastern Confederates were largely of Yakubs-Memphish descent and followed Coptic Ebakianity, which strictly forbid slavery. Western Unionist cities meanwhile had become increasingly diverse but maintained a Black Sunni Hebrew Israelite ruling class, whose faith encouraged slavery. Interestingly, both President Fuller and King Quavis were of Black Sunni Hebrew Israelite descent.

## 1861

### Battle of New Compton

The Negromurian Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces opened fire on the Union-held Fort Bix Nood outside of New Compton. This would be the 2nd largest battle of the war. King Quavis and his vassals were within the walls, as he had declared the Union's independance at the roundtable an hour before. A mob of Union supporters and militiamen gathered outside the fort and accosted Confederate soldiers keeping their distance behind a lake about 600 ft from the fortress. According to numerous sources that were in the fort, King Quavis had said to the team of Confederate diplomats and negotiators,

> "Put on notice if you don't grant us independance, if you do anything bad to us, we will do things to you that have never been done before."
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shortly before forcefully expelling them. After countless calls for the Unionists to stand down were refused, A confederate artillery section fired a shot into a crowd of Union militia, later claiming they had been aiming muskets at the cannon crewmen.

Quavis said the "activation word" to his command and fled the fort, shouting to the confused and violent mob "All patriots go". Within ten minutes, roughly 35,000 Unionist militiamen waiting in the surrounding countryside swarmed the 700 Confederate soldiers outside the fort. Although mostly armed with machetes, the force managed to completely annihilate the unprepared Confederates, taking their firearms and repositioning cannons to defend Fort Bix Nood. A further 385 professional union soldiers arrived.

General Freeman was in the area and received word of the battle. With President Fuller's permission, he mobilized 15,000 soldiers to deal with the Unionist rebels, with an additional 10,000 led by general Talmbout readied to reinforce if needed. As news spread rapidly, by the next morning other Confederate leaders and paramilitary raced to Fort Bix Nood. Similarly, all across the City States, zealous supporters of King Quavis in the "Qtriot Guard" misinterpreted news of the activation words being spoken and believed there to be a "full send" order. By a month after the initial attack, A total of 127,400 Confederate soldiers had arrived to engage the 205,000 Qtriots and Union soldiers.

After 2 months of fighting and consistent bombardment, Fort Bix Nood was reduced to rubble and the Qtriots were pushed back to New Compton. At this point, the Union army was entirely composed of the Qtriots and the force had actaully increased to 240,000, even after thousands of losses. The Confederates, growing weary of fighting, had around 90,000 at this point. On June 14th King Quavis gave the real "full send" order, ordering all forces to charge at night and overrun the Confederate forces. In a single night, over 80,000 Qtriots and roughly 50,000 Confederates perished, the remaining forces being routed.

## 1861 (post battle of New Compton) to 1864

As both sides had suffered irreversable damage to their armies, practically zero fighting outside skirmishes and occured for some years, but zero negotiations or talks were held at this time, as it was unanimously understood only one state would come out of this conflict. There would be 20 minor battles (never over 10,000 combatants) fought from November 1864 - April 1865 in the lead up to the battle of Gettyshart, the final confrontation.