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"I will die for Dixie!"- William L Yancey

On April 9th, 1865 General Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Grant at Appomattox Court House. Ten days later Union President Lincoln and Vice President Andrew Johnson are assassinated and letting President Pro Tempore Lafayette Forester become President of the United States. Forester, in his Presidential Address he blamed the South for the entire chain of events, flaming up the simmering tensions between North and South. The South rises in succession again,launching a guerrilla war with William Lowandes Yancey at his head. He formed the Red Shirts in the US and set up a Government in Exile in Brazil. Soon afterword the Red Shirts had begun organized raids in Northern Virginia, Southern Massachusetts and and the Deep South. The first raid was against New Orleans and resulted in the docks being wrecked, 123 Union occupiers killed and 20 Red Shirts killed. A rousing victory in every sense of the word and a message to the Yankees that Dixie wasn't dead. The Brazilians recognized the CSA government in exile soon after and accepted them into Rio de Janero, infuriating the US.
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