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The war grinds to an ugly bloody draw. Confederate troops have broken into small raider groups, tying up US units. Sherman's march grinds to a halt because he finds that his cavalry can't protect his supply lines from CS raiders. Unable to face the Union army in the field, the Confedracy takes the Mosby option of recon and raid where they aren't.

Union casualties go up. The people begin to complain that the war is taking too long. What hasn't been stolen has been burned. CS citizens, sick of Union troops taking their meager supplies, take to spying and killing Union soldiers in ones and twos.

Finally, the British and French offer to broker a treaty. Both sides accept.

The CSA gains her independence by default, but the years after are marred by raids into each other's territory. The CSA and some of the Indian Tribes form an alliance to keep the Union at bay.

The Claibourne Amendment to the CS Constitution in 1866 allowed for the gradual emancipation of slaves. Some went south to Mexico and further; others went North and about 40% remained in the CSA. Legally, they held civil rights equal to their former masters; in reality it took much longer than the 1895 target date to get all Confederates to accept the situation, even with the onset of machinery. The CS military was amongst the very first CS institutions to accept blacks as equals and black men flocked to the military, primarily the Navy, but the Army as well. Units were integrated from start and persons unwilling to continue service were given a muster-out option. Many stayed.

The CSA remains neutral in WW 1 and WW 2 saw the CSA only as a supplier of arms to the highest bidders.

The CSA does not subscribe to the United Nations in this timeline and trades only with her most Southern neighbors, Israel and the Czarist Russians. She has a modern airforce, navy and army with bio-war and chem war capabilities. She owns 20 nuclear ICBMs hidden in hard silos. The CSA is not in excessive debt, though it does have some.

The Federal States are UN members, have extensive world trade and all of the debt that goes with it. They as well have a moderm military and nuclear weapons. Much of the US military is stationed along the border with the Indian territories and the CSA.

The Indian territories are largely agarian and a CS military protectorate.

The current border troubles continue from time to time but have never escalated to anything more than militia clashes with few dead/wounded.

Mexico owns California (there was no Spanish American war) and the US has all of the Western states it has in our TL except California and the states held by the CSA.
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