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Here is the background of what's happened before then:
The Confederacy have just fought a war with Mexico and gained the states of Sonora and Chihuahua and the Baja Territory in 1886. 3 years later they also fought off a rebellion of the Deep South States over the abolition of slavery all this happened under the administration of James Longstreet
The Democrats have nominated Simon Bolivia Buckner of Kentucky
The Confederalists have nominated the current Confederate States Vice President Fitzhugh Lee of Virginia