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5 November

The Louisiana Native Guard hold a target practice session, assisted by a former sergeant from the 1st West India Regiment. There is a great deal of shouting taking place, as the Louisiana NG have not actually been in combat before and are primarily a regiment of the well-off, but they do all have quite good rifles and some progress is made.

Bafflement is reported among the Confederate spectators, who are not sure how to take the sight of a black man shouting at other black men about the proper way to use a rifle. (The Sergeant also outshoots all five of the spectators who wish to try their hand, which does not help the cognitive dissonance.)


7 November

The distinctly confused midterm elections in the United States (especially Maryland and Missouri) draw to a close. They had been sometimes mixed up with the local elections the Confederacy is already trying to hold in the to-be-ceded territories, resulting in several days of delay before the announcement of the final result.
The new composition of the US House and Senate is already becoming clear, however - the Democratic Party has had a good election, and will control the House when the swearing-in happens in early March, though the Senate remains Republican controlled.

The Confederate Congress formally ratifies the Treaty of Havana in a special session intended to pressurize the Union, as does the Confederate State of Maryland. Flag design committees halt and restart work, this time accounting for the soon-to-be-accepted State of Colorado (which would bring the total number of stars to fourteen, ironically a number the Stars and Bars handles much better than the Battle Flag which had been gaining popular acclaim).


8 November
Capital Relocation Committee reports again to Congress, this time making clear that the time window is known at no greater than six months and that the decision should be made as soon as possible.
This becomes somewhat sidetracked into a question of delay, with one Democratic congressman pointing out that if the House delays ratification they will be leaving the next congress with a six-month problem and one month to sort it out.


EDIT made: making clear the CSA congress was in a special session to ratify the treaty.