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By 1865 the western hemisphere had been changed forever.  The Confederate States of America, in ruins after numerous critical defeats and nearing surrender, attained a startling new weapon and turned the tide of war.  By November of 1864 Washington D.C. fell into Confederate hands.  Though the two leaders, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee, who replaced the slain Jefferson Davis, came to peace, the Confederate victory unleashed a wave of consequences.  The Union's relations with Great Britain and Mexico had grown increasingly strained, while on the pacific shore a new revolt broke out with the secession of California, Oregon, and the Alaska Territory under the Union veteran Jean-Paul Martinez.  More disturbing was the resurgance of Mormon resistance under the aged Brigham Young, who vowed to defeat both the Union and the Confederacy as payment for past transgressions.  Finally, the plains indians, under the leadership of Sitting Bull, seemed ready and able to challenge Western authority.  The future now rests in your hands.

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