The American Worries grow
Two major events rock America's boat once again, one involving another major disease.
Equine Influenza emerges in Ontario, 1872, quickly reaching epidemic levels. America and parts of Canada are shut down without healthy horses and their use as an urban mode of transport. James Law, commissioner of Agriculture, described the disease as:
James Law said:
"An epizootic specific fever of a very debilitating type, with inflammation of the respiratory mucous membrane, and less frequently of other organs, having an average duration of ten to fifteen days, and not conferring immunity from a second attack in subsequent epizootics."
Secondly, just after Federal troops were pulled from the South, the Great Fire of Atlanta ignited. It was believed to be started by disgruntled Army members, it tarnished Grant's reputation even moreso.
The North and South were both bouncing back, The North on Gold and The South on Tea, but the South had a head start, shifting sentiment away from the Union towards The South. Klan sentiment grew, as The Southerners became more spiteful to the North.
They tossed out their Republican State Governments, and installed their own Democratic governments. Nathan Bedford Forrest began to compete with Grant in the South For popularity, and some in the North began to worry about KKK infiltration into the Southern Government.
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