Reconstruction in a reconquered CSA

The Confederacy successfully seceded. In negotiations, the Union bullied the confederates into accepting the loss of Tennessee, West Virginia, Northern Virginia, northeastern Arkansas, and the Florida Keys. The Mississippi is also to be a demilitarized and international waterway when it comes to trade. The confederates are also to assume a proportion of the pre-war national debt that is proportionate to the population the 10 seceded states had in the country overall - with slaves counted as full persons as part of those population figures rather than 3/5. The war ended in 1863 or 1864.

Flash-forward 20 years or so. The CSA is increasingly unstable. Texas has found oil and, being pretty open, has continued to receive immigrants from Germany and Bohemia among other places who aren't too hot on the rest of the country. Texas also is a place a lot of yeomen who are unhappy with the emergence of sharecropping in the rest of the CSA head to. Louisiana meanwhile continues to be somewhat distinct culturally from the rest of the CSA - especially around New Orleans - and has continued to receive some immigration to New Orleans.

Texas and Louisiana opt to secede, and the rest of the CSA decides not to let them get away with it. Maybe the two secede as a confederation, maybe as two separate republics, it doesn't make much of a difference really.

The Union cuts a deal in which it'll support Texan and Louisiana independence and use the opportunity to reconquer the rest of the CSA.


How does reconstruction work in a reconquered CSA?
 
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