Kansas

From Turtledove

Kansas is a Midwestern state in the central region of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the American "Heartland". It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa tribe, who inhabited the area.

In the decade leading up to the American Civil War, the state was known as "Bleeding Kansas" as abolitionists and anti-abolitionists did battle over whether the state would be admitted to the Union as a slave state.

[edit] Kansas in Southern Victory

Kansas was finally admitted to the United States as a free state. In the years prior to the Second Mexican War, the Confederate government allowed Indians living in Indian Territory to cross over the border and raid Kansas.

Confederate Calvary raided Kansas from Sequoya early in the war before US forces began pushing into Sequoya.

After the Great War, Fort Benton, Kansas became the home of the Kansas Barrel Works under the command of Irving Morrell. Production here was suspended when Upton Sinclair became President of the United States.

When the Pacific War began in 1932, then-President Hosea Blackford ordered the Barrel Works to restart, a fact that amused and disgusted Morrell.

During the Second Great War Kansas City and Leavenworth were bombed heavily. C.S. raiders also entered Kansas.

[edit] Kansas in Worldwar

The Race's Conquest Fleet were entrenched in Kansas until the Peace of Cairo.