Look Away

POD: The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under the command of Robert E. Lee is able to defeat the Union Army of the Potomac during the Maryland Campaign in 1862. The decisive Confederate victory at Gettysburg is enough to gain the Confederacy the diplomatic recognition from Britain and France it had been seeking since 1861, and forces the Union and Confederate forces to seek a peace agreement.

The 1863 Treaty of Paris creates two nations, divisible under god.