1814: The American Civil War

The Convention That Changed Everything
In 1814 the now strong Federalists hold many meetings in Hartford to discuss if to remian part of a nation fighting a pointless war and they are able to convince New England states and New York to stop fighting leading to an American surrender and the war ends with no gains as the war came to an abrupt end because of the depletion of troops. A few weeks later after the Treaty of Ghent which is signed and announced to the Americans and British by January 8th, the Battle of New Orleans date, but this is still too much for the Federalists to bare and on February 1, 1815 the states of Massachusetts(Back then included the OTL state of Maine), New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York secede from the United States. The president of the USA, James Madison, demands that they return or a war will be inevitable. The states fail to comply and Madison has a force under Andrew Jackson, the hero of New Orleans, be sent into New York and to burn the city if the resistance is too fierce (if possible). The army reaches the city by March with back-up ships ready to evacuate while meanwhile the new republic of New England is ready for a hard battle.

The Battle of NYC
When Jackson's force arrived in the harbor of New York City a force was ready to stop them. As Jackson led his troops into onto land the New England force fought with great bravery and resistance, and was repelling the attack greatly. By the next day, almost one-third of both forces were killed or injured and Jackson retreated to the boats with his troops to prepare for a second attack as he left the harbor. Two weeks after the first attack, Jackson returned with double his original force and the New England force had only grown a small margin. As this time he attacked at night, the New Englanders were unready this time but again repelled the force but house to house fighting arose. Four days after the new part of the battle had begun Jackson retreated and fled back to Washington to tell Madison that he had failed and that war had to be accepted and that the American Civil War was upon the American people and government, especially the government.

1815
After the Battle of NYC in March the armies of both New England and America were slowly healed and by July of that same year both were ready to engae, at least at land. At sea the Americans had the advantage but the New Englanders had a few ideas up their sleeves, an alliance with Britain.