Timeline (House Divided but Strong)

The timeline is basicly the same until July 25th.

April-August

 * April 12: Beginning of the Southern Revolution (OTL: American Civil War) when Southern Forces fire on Fort Sumter.
 * April 13: Fort Sumter surrenders.
 * April 15: President Abraham Lincoln issues a Proclamation calling for 75,000 men to confront in the South, "combinations too powerful to be suppressed in the ordinary way".
 * April 17: Virginia secedes from the Union.
 * April 27: Western Virginia attemts to declare secession from Virginia.
 * May 6: Arkansas secedes from the Union
 * May 7: Tennessee secedes from the Union
 * Sessession plot of Western virginia crushed.


 * May 8: Richmond Virginia is declared the capital of the Confederacy.
 * May 20: Kentucky Declares itself neutral.
 * North Carolina secedes from the Union.

July 21: Battle of Bull Run: At Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war ends in a Confederate victory.
 * June 9: Lebanon is seperated from Syria inside the Ottoman Empire.
 * June 15: Benito Juárez is formally elected President of Mexico
 * July 13: The Battle of Corrick's Ford takes place in western Virginia.

Point of Divergence
July 25th OTL: The Crittenden-Johnson Resolution is passed by the U.S. Congress, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery. July 25th: The US congress, following the Battle of Bull Run, with Presidential Approval, passes the Alexandria Plan for ending the southern rebellion.

July 27th: Confederate Congress agrees to the terms of the Alexandria plan, with a ceasefire being declared.

August 1: Confederate and Union Diplomats meet in Toronto Canada with British Officals Mediating. Trad