Republican John C Fremont is elected President of the Untied States in 1856 on an anti-slavery platform.
This infuriates the slave states in the border areas and in the south. The border and south (Green states) secede from the union on April 5, 1857.
Jefferson Davis is declared as President and Andrew Stephens is declared as Vice President of the Confederate States of America.
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President Fremont declares the union will not tolerate the secession and declares war on April 7, 1857, "to bring a free union together." The north and the south fight a bitter and bloody war to a standstill until June 14, 1860, when a truce is declared.
In the famous "Slave Rebellion" of July, 1860, led by heroic slave Josiah James, slaves who have formed a militia, aided by northern white and black sympathizers, bring down the Confederate capital in Richmond, Virginia. The Confederacy had moved the capital from Montgomery, Alabama to Richmond, Virginia, in 1859.
The Confederate government, including cabinet, and members of the Confederate Congress are taken captive.
President Jefferson and Vice President Stephens escape and set up a government in exile in the Arizona territory.
Emboldened by this move, the slave rebellion is broadened throughout the south, doing battle with a by now dispirited and drastically weakened Confederate army, lacking official governmental direction.
The famed black freedom fighter Moses Sinclair, inspired by the heroic expolits of Josiah James, rallys slaves throughout the south to the cause of liberty, and they are able to force the Confederate army, and President in exile Jefferson Davis, to sign the historic "Freedom Order," on September 16, 1860, freeing all slaves, giving them land, farm animals, equipment, and cash, the same order which re-unites the north and the south into one strong union.
Jefferson and Stephens return to Richmond, and Jefferson signs official surrender documents with the union.
