Cotton Party

OnJuly 12,1860 the Cotton Party is founded in Richmond as a pro-slavery political party

1861 elections, in a stunning election the Cotton Party's Jefferson Davis is elected president of the United States of America, as a result New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, and California secede from the USA and form the Confederate Commonwealth of America who elect Abraham Lincoln as president

1862 Jefferson Davis who had been having peace talks with the CCA decides that they will not give in and invades the fledging nation the Armies meet at the First Battle of Gettysburg, the US armies are routed after two days of battle, sporadic fighting occurs all over the CCA/USA border

1863 Ulysses S. Grant becomes the supreme comander of the Confederate Army, he lauches assaults all over the long frontier, eventually his Maryland Campain captures US General Robert E. Lee by surprise in Annapolis where the much better supplied CCA Army routs the entire Army of Northern Virginia, this act makes Maryland join the CCA and gains the CCA recognition from Austria, and Prussia who force Jefferson Davis to recognize the CCA as an independent nation. Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis sign the Treaty of Baltimore wich does these things:

A) the Confederate Commonwealth of America whould be recognized as an independent nation

B) The the Dakota, Washington, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada territory whould become CCA territory

C) Slavery in the USA and in the CCA whould be officialy abolished

Flag of CCA

January 1, 1864 Jefferson Davis signs the Treaty of Baltimore

January 5, 1864 the City of Lincoln is established at the mouth of the Connecticut