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Assuming that the Confederacy had managed to "win" the American Civil War by winning a few more victories in the beggining of the war, Lee's General Order 191 (or its ITTL equivalent) not being discovered by the North, etc, how would the border states have been dealt with in the peace negotiations?

Kentucky, Missouri, and West Virginia, among other states and territories, were claimed by both sides. Certain states, such as Kentucky and Missouri, had large Confederate support bases, as did certain territories that the Confederacy claimed in the West. However, those two states also had large Union support bases.

Is it possible that the two states might have been divided into Union and Confederate states? Is it possible that the negotations may have included the Confederate concession of West Virginia and Missouri in exchange for their acquisition all of Kentucky (a state they considered one of the most valuable, as did the Union)?
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