People (Two Americas)

All people alive during the American Civil War would experience different lives after the turning point of the loss to the Union of Colonel Phillip Sheridan on December 31, 1862, at the Battle of Muphreesboro. In this alternate time line, the Union forces there were not able to retreat, but were taken captive. Soon afterwards, most of the Union forces in Tennessee had withdrawn to Kentucky.

This page is a gateway to the biographies of people, mostly presidents of the two Americas, as their lives would have changed.

Presidents of the United States
would have lived out his life essentially the same. The circumstances of his death probably would have been a conspiracy of Confederates in response to his orders to "slash and burn" the economic underpinnings of the south -- an attack on the civilian infrastructure!

, being from Tennessee, would have attempted a different tact in the last part of the war (April, 1865 through July, 1866). After the ceasefire, the Johnson administration began the official policy of inclusion. Even after the rest of the world began to recognize the CSA as a separate nation, the USA officially denied its legitimacy. Upon leaving office in 1868, Johnson would retire to Maine, USA.

Presidents of the Confederate States
would have finally finished a full term in elected office. As president during the whole active war, he personally oversaw the defense of the new homeland. The bill of armistice was to his dying day the highlight of his life. Though he would occasionally advise later presidents (all of whom had served under him as commander-in-chief), he would mostly travel and write after leaving office.

, born in Virginia in 1856, and growing up in Augusta Georgia, his life would be much the same until he returned to the University of Virginia instead of Princeton University to study history and political science. He would go on to other prestigious schools across the Confederate States. In our time line he would have studied and built his career in schools in what in this time line would be considered off limits to anyone hopeful of a political career. Instead of becoming professor and president of Princeton he would hold the same positions at the university of Virgina.

, of Missouri, would first serve as the twelfth president of the CSA before going on to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the CSA. As in our time line, he would be a textualist when it came to the CS Constitution. For this reason, full civil rights of black Confederates was not possible until after his death in 1971.

, of Missouri, would take the reigns of government from of South Carolina in the midst of debate for extending the former's tenure until the end of World War II. Truman would host US president {{TwoAm|Henry A. Wallace]] on Thanksgiving Day, 1947, to sign an accord in which the US finally concedes "defeat" and officially recognizes the CS.

{{TwoAm|Dwight D. Eisenhower}}, born in Texas during the administration of {{TwoAm|Pierre_Gustave_Toutant_Beauregard|P.G.T Beauregard}}, never moved to Kansas as in our time line. Instead, he grew up in Oklahoma. Since West Point Military Academy is deep into Union territory, Eisenhower graduated from the premier military school in the CS - Virginia Military Institute. From there he would go on to become a regular general (5-star) in leading the CS forces in Europe during the Second World War. As a result of operations in the closing days of that war, the CS was able to "rescue" German rocket scientists who would later help the North American Allies (CS-US-Canada) in their efforts in what became known as the "Space Race" with the USSR.

As president, he pushed for troops to be sent to help the UN hold on to South Korea, but the CS Congress would not go along. When the US president asked for assistance in the mounting tensions in French Indochina, again, the CS Congress stood in the way. Both Korea and Vietnam would fall to the Communists.