Confederate States of America (Victory in the Civil War)

This article will explore the implications of a Confederate victory during the Civil War.

Vicksburg and Gettysburg
On May 2, 1863, Stonewall Jackson was mistaken as a "Yankee" by the 18th North Carolina Infantry. One of the men fired on Jackson but was ordered to stop after frantic cries forced them to evaluate the response. Jackson got away with a single bullet in his left arm, requiring surgery but not amputation. Thus, he survived the war into the Battle of Gettysburg in July of 1863. Meanwhile, instead of going to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania himself, Lee ordered Jackson to send his units there instead while Lee would send reinforcements to Vicksburg, Mississippi to keep the Mississippi River from falling into Union hands. The Battle of Big Black River Bridge on May 17 ended with a Confederate victory, preventing a siege on the city. The Confederates pushed their way north up the Mississippi River. Regarding Gettysburg, J.E.B. Stuart requested to Jackson that he take a portion of the army's cavalry (three brigades) around to the east flank of the Union army. Jackson refused this request. Thus, the entire cavalry stayed with Lee at the battle and everyone was assigned an active role., and the entirety of the calvary lefty behind was assigned active roles soon after he left. On July 3, Stuart was sent, with Jackson's command and specific orders, to guard the Confederate flank and damage the demoralized U.S. army by hitting their trains and lines of communications. Three miles to the East, Stuart's forces collided with the U.S. cavalry: Wade Hampton attacked the 1st Michigan Cavalry under Custer, who failed to block Stuart to achieve his objectives. While the battle was lengthy, including hand-to-hand combat, the Confederates won the third and final day of Gettysburg and the entirety of the Battle of Gettysburg. Furthermore, the Army of the Potomac was destroyed.

Washington and New York
Jackson then marched Southeast towards Washington DC. He had arranged with Robert E. Lee and other Confederate commanders to meet near there by the end of the month or the beginning of the next month. In August of 1863, almost 49 years exacvtly after the Burning of Washington, the Confederacy was able to divided the capital city of the United States in two along the Anacostia River. With the city divided and under seige, France under Napaolean II officially reocnigzed the Confederate States of America as an independent country as it was in desperate need of cotton and called on Britian to do the same. The latter remained hestiatnt because it was highly opposed to the preactice of slavery which it had ablished thorughout its whole empire in the 1830s. It had p;lenty of slave-free labor grown in India and Egypt. Neverthless, the British would only agree to it if the South would abolish slavery in the foresable future. Jefferson Davis, Confederate president, secretly declared that abolition of some form would take place, although he was deliberately vague on how and when it would happen. With diplomatic reconigition to Richmond, France declared war on the Union on August 25, 1863, and Britian entered on the Confederate side on August 27, 1863.