Triumph of the Confederacy

Timeline:
10 September 1862 (Point of Divergance):

A Confederate soldier trailing behind the rest of the Confederacy's army, find's General Robert E. Lee's "Special Order 191" which was previously lost by a Confederate messenger.

12 July 1862:

With the orders recovered, Lee begins his advance into the North.

30 August 1862::

Lee's advance takes the Union army (led by General George McClellan), by  surprise at Lancaster, inflicting heavy casualties upon the Army of the Potomac, forcing McClellan to retreat.

1 October 1862:

The successful Lee begins a seige of Philadelphia.

2 October 1862:

Having seen the major Confederate victory at Lancaster, the seige of Philadelphia and the Union evacuation of the surrounded Washington D.C., Great Britain offically recognizes the Confederate States of America and declares war on the United States in support.

22 October 1862:

Philadpehia finally falls to the seige and Confederate forces ransack the city.

November - December 1862:

Great Britain conducts a massive attack on the United States, assaulting at Detroit and Boston, beginning an occupation of the New England states.

The British Army at Detroit marches onwards into Ohio where it encounters Ulysses S. Grant's Army on its way to reinforce the surviving Army of the Potomac. The Battle of Scioto River led to the decimation of Grant's unprepared forces leaving heavy casualties and deaths. The reamining forces led by Grant retreat West followed in pursuit by the British.

The British Army at Boston meets up and begin a seige of New York, the provisonal capital of the US government.

January 1863:

By the start of the year, British and Confederate forces succesfully occupied the majority of the East Coast of America while the US government and remaining Union forces flee West. The Union blockade of the Confederacy is also broken innear the end of January 1863 by the British Navy, allowing British and Confederate forces to free New Orleans from the Union and to open the Mississippi River to British ships and vessels.

Spring 1863:

British Forces head from New York and Baltimore towards the Union-held city of Charleston where the remants of the US army have been left. McClellan and Grant take the remains of the Union forces to intercept the British and Confederates causing both sides to suffer massive casualties, but soon enough, the British and Confederates overwhelm the Armies. Grant surrenders to the enemy while McClellan is killed in battle.

June 1863:

With the Union army left shattered and without leadership and the majority of the East Coast occupied by enemy soldiers, the US government in Califronia offers peace with the CSA and UK. Their is outage across the US states once an armstice is declared between the two sides on the 30th of July, 1863.

19 July 1863:

The "Treaty of Kingston", signed on the 19th of July 1863 and finally puts an end to the war. It grants the 11 Confederate states their independence, cedes the territories of Southern Arizona and New Mexico, Southern Maryland, the District of Columbia and the Oklahoma territory to the Confederacy. Unlike the CSA, Britain refuses territorial concessions or fiancial reparations from the United States but  instead requests the US accepts the current US-Canadian Border and to withdraw any disputes it has over the issue.



The Confederacy in 1863 - 1900:

Establishing Washington, D.C. as the permanent capital of the Confederate States, the Confederacy began to industrialize their cities and towns mostly from the huge aid and economic resoruces of the British Empire. Using their significant aid and fiancial help as leverage, the British put pressure on the Confederate government to end slavery. Refusing the British demands at first, after all slavery was one of the main issues the "War of Secession" began, the Confederate governemnt create the "Memphis Accords."

This agreement established that slavery was allowed to continue in the Confederacy and her territories but slaves would have certain legal rights and that all slavery would be regulated by the governemnt. Some of the major terms included, protectection from physical abuse (for example whipping or beating), all slaves must be looked after and well fed, all business involving the selling of slaves would be regulated and inspected daily by the government and that slaves would be represented fairly and equally in a court of law. Still unsatisfied with the agreement, the British forced the Confederate government to establish a new term in the accords which would allow individuals who had been working as slaves for more than 15 years (the British orignally wanted it to be shortened to 10 years but were refused) to be allowed freedom at their request.

Meanwhile, the Confederates had also drawn up a new constituion, establishing that states would have more say in their own internal runnings and promoted further decentralisation in the CSA. Taxes were reduced and  It also ended segregation of free black people and free white people and established the Oklahoma and Arizona territories (gained in the Treaty of Kingston) to be included as states in the new Union, under the names of Sequoyah and Socorro, respectively.