Timeline (Johnston Victorious!)

1862

 * In April, Albert Sydney Johnston is victorious in the battle of Shiloh. His forces destroy the Armies of Tennesse and Ohio.
 * The Confederacy, heartened by this victory, continues to push back the Union, with Johnston leading the Confederate War machine.
 * The Democrats retake both houses of congress in the midterm elections due to broad unsatisfaction with the war.

1863

 * On March 31, Abraham Lincoln is assassinated. Vice President Hannibal Hamlin assumes the presidency.
 * Britain and France, seeing that the Confederacy might be able to win the war if they help, begin to supply aid to the South, including new, better warships. However, they force the Confederacy to allow freedom for the families of black men who fought in the war.
 * Hamlin makes a series of military errors that Lincoln did not make, resulting in the war turning even more for the Confederacy.
 * With the new aid from Britain and France, Confederate forces invade West Virginia.

1864

 * President Hamlin orders an expansion of the draft to continue the war. Anti-draft riots break out across the north.
 * Anti-War feelings rise even higher in the north.
 * Rebel forces take Missouri, and secure the western territories.
 * The unpopular Hamlin is defeated in a landslide election by Thomas Seymour.
 * The Republican Party is crushed in the Congressional elections.

1865

 * The Republican Party dissolves. Members either become independent, or join the new Liberal Party.
 * Seymour negoicates a peace with the Confederacy, giving them all the seceeded states and territories, as well as West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri.
 * The economies of both regions suffer from the war.