One Nation, Under God

After the South seceded successfully from the Union in 1863 (due to their success at Gettysburg and their march into Philadelphia and Washington D.C.), the Confederacy had quite a problem. They deigned to organize a new nation, supposedly conceived in liberty, around the principles of States' Rights. What they did not anticipate, however, is that a confederacy of states is much less secure than one Nation, under God.