North Carolina
From Turtledove
North Carolina was one of the original 13 states in the United States of America, and the home of the first English colony in the Americas It was a slave state in 1860, with a relatively small slave population. It refused to join the Confederacy until President Abraham Lincoln called on it to invade its sister-state, South Carolina. The state was the site of few battles, but it provided at least 125,000 troops to the Confederacy— more than any other Confederate state.
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[edit] North Carolina in Days of Infamy
North Carolina was the first place new recruits went on their path to becoming pilots in the United States Navy. Joe Crosetti was housed at the University of North Carolina early in 1942.
[edit] North Carolina in The Guns of the South
North Carolina became the home of the Afrikanerweerstandsbeweging in 1864, after they arrived from the year 2014. They set up their headquarters in a town called Rivington, from which the produced the AK-47s which gave the Confederacy victory in the Second American Revolution.
However, when the "Rivington Men" attempted to dominate the Confederacy first through politics and then through a revolt, the Confederacy attacked and destroyed the Rivington headquarters.
[edit] North Carolina in Southern Victory
North Carolina was a state of the Confederate States. In 1915, during the Great War, North Carolina housed a prisoner of war camp. George Enos was taken there after his fishing ship, the Ripple was sunk by the Confederate navy.
As early as 1921, North Carolina became a solidly Freedom Party state--Jake Featherston carried the state, although he lost the election. A few years later, after the stock market crash, the Freedom Party regained its momentum, and North Carolina was one of the states that elected a Freedom candidate to Congress.
[edit] North Carolina in Worldwar
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina was the home the United States launching pad for orbital missions. Glenn Johnson launched from North Carolina in the early 1960s.
[edit] North Carolina in The Disunited States of America
In the 19th century, North Carolina merged with South Carolina into one country.
