Ohio

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Ohio is a Midwestern state of the United States, in the Great Lakes region.

[edit] Ohio in The Disunited States of America

In an alternate where the United States failed, the country Ohio was a bitter enemy of its neighbor, Virginia. The two made war on each other severl times throughout the 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries.

In 2097, Ohio launched a new war against Virginia. A few weeks into the war, Ohio disseminated a mutated measles virus among the Virginians and followed through with a ground invasion. It also provided arms to Virginia's disenfranchised blacks. However, after a period of bloody fighting, the war simply ground to a halt.

[edit] Ohio in Southern Victory

Ohio was the focus of Operation Blackbeard, the 1941 Confederate invasion of the United States which began the Second Great War in North America. The surprise attack successfully pushed all the way to the city of Sandusky on the shores of Lake Erie, cutting the U.S. in two.

The Confederacy held Ohio until 1943, when, after the C.S. Army was crushed at the Battle of Pittsburgh, and the C.S. was forced back south and out of the United States.

Veteran Chester Martin hailed from Toledo, Ohio, where, after the Great War, he participated in unionizing the city's steel-workers.

Ulysses S. Grant, one of the handful of moderately successful generals the U.S. produced during the War of Secession also hailed from Ohio.