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In 1860-61 about 1/3 of the population of the population of California was pro-Confederate... Many of these Southern simpathizers saw it as their duty
to take care of Confederate interests in the West, sep. in California. To that end, they formed several secret societies to further their cause. They relized
that they were too small of a minority to have any chance of bringing CA into the CSA, but thought that if they could form a coalition with certain other
groups they could get CA, OR, Utah Territory (including Nevada), and the northern section of New Mexico Territory (CSA claimed the southern section as
Arizona Territory) to secede as the Pacific Republic. To that end they devised a plan to seize control of San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay, and
declare the Republic.

Looking at the 1860 election results, and the number of people in CA that were ineligible to vote, I think that if they had gotten that far (They had hoped
that brevet Brigadier General Albert Sidney Johnson, commander of the army's Depart of the Pacific, would join there cause; but were sorely dissapointed.),
they might have been able to gain the support of the people of CA, and probably could have gained the suport of the territories as well... Oregon would have
been difficult, but might have been do able... In the map below, green show the areas I think would have become part of , or at least claimed by, the Pacific
Republic... (Not sure about the green and blue stripe area, but it had a small enough population that they might as well claim it...

So, my question is, how would The Union/Lincoln have responded? Would they/he have ignored the Pacific Republic while they fought the CSA (w/o CA gold
to keep them solvent) and then tried to retake the West after the CSA was defeated? Would they/he try to put the war w/ the CSA on hold until the West
was reclaimed? Or would they/he have tried to fight both the CSA and the Pacific Republic at the same time?

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