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Second American Revolution
Timeline The Guns of the South
Date 1861 to 1864
Location North America
Result Creation of the Confederate States
Belligerents
34Stars United States CSA Confederate States
Commanders and leaders
34Stars Abraham Lincoln

34Stars Ulysses S. Grant

CSA Jefferson Davis

CSA Robert E. Lee

The Second American Revolution was the name given by Confederate States to the war they won in 1864. Time-travelers from a 21st century South African organization called America Will Break supplied Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, General Joseph Johnston's Army of Tennessee, and other commands east of the Mississippi River with large numbers of AK-47s and small amounts of other supplies. These advanced rifles more than made up for the Confederacy's limited manpower and industrial base.

At the start of the 1864 campaign season, the Federal military launched coordinated offensive across several fronts as part of a strategy by the new General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant. In numerous engagements, outnumbered Confederate armies used their repeaters to repel Union forces several times their size, inflicting heavy casualties and keeping any of them from accomplishing their objectives. Some Confederate commanders, such as General Forrest, used their firepower to advance.

The most decisive actions of the war occurred between the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac. Lee ambushed Grant in the Wilderness and through heavy fighting completely destroyed one of the Union's four corps, sending it into retreat. A bolder head-on attack at Bealeton, Virginia inflicted even more losses, for a total of around 40,000 combat forces in two battles. The collapse of Union presence in Virginia allowed the Confederates to keep advancing and invade the North for a third time in as many years.

The ANV pressed on to Washington City where President Abraham Lincoln had remained despite the encroaching enemy. When Lee and his army stormed the city, Lincoln invited the rebel commander into the Executive Mansion to negotiate an armistice, ending major combat of the Second American Revolution.

Peace negotiations would last until after the elections later that year. Lincoln, having lost reelection, settled before his replacement took office. The CSA gained the Indian Territory in exchange for letting West Virginia remain with the Union, and the US agreed to pay 90 million in specie as restitution for the war. Kentucky joined the CSA after a referendum suggest by Lee and endorsed by Lincoln while Missouri voted to remain with the USA.

Only select members of the Confederate high command knew of the AWB's time traveling origins, and received a version of the original timeline's history which turned out to be far from the truth. An illustrated book, pilfered from an AWB office, was brought to General Lee by a foot soldier named Melvin Bean. From this, Confederate officials learned what the averted history of the American Civil War would have been.

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