<P> Meanwhile, Lincoln was released by the Confederates in 1864 and started a law office in Chicago . However, he was still assassinated in a theater, in this case at McVicker's Theater in Chicago . </P> <P> The newly independent Confederacy suffered some instability, especially since the restive Texas seized the contested Indian Territory and finally declared its complete independence . That brought the specter of war close, with either the US going to war over the Indian Territory or the Confederacy seeking to retain Texas by force, but it was averted; Texas was allowed to amicably go its own way, and relations between all three nations steadily improved . The two terms of US President James B. McPherson (in actual history, a Union officer who was killed during the Battle of Atlanta in July 1864) were marked by a strong tendency towards reconciliation with the Confederate States . His Second Inaugural Speech, arguing that the war ending in 1863 saved the lives of many who would have been killed had it dragged on, was warmly received south of the Mason--Dixon line, became part of the school curriculum, and helped achieve an eventual reunification (though it came only long after his death). </P> <P> The Confederacy was also faced with the issue of slavery, very much contested despite its victory in what came to be known as "The War of the Southern Revolution ." With the rest of the world abolishing slavery, Confederates started feeling that they were out of step . Virginia abolished slavery in its territory, followed by Kentucky and North Carolina, and later Maryland and Tennessee . A new political force named the Jeffersonian Party called for abolition of slavery and gained the support of such prominent persons as Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Robert E. Rodes, John Pegram and, later, Leonidas Polk . Finally, Confederate slavery was fully abolished in 1885, the Liberation Bill being adopted with little opposition under the presidency of James Longstreet . Southerners having resolved this by themselves, rather than having the decision forced upon them by a victorious hostile army, helped avoid any lingering bitterness, and no organization resembling the Ku Klux Klan arose . </P> <P> In 1898, it was the Confederacy that went to war with Spain, and seized and annexed Cuba . The flamboyant Rel Stuart, a son of Jeb Stuart born in 1867, had a major role in this war and was eventually the first governor of the State of Cuba . (In one illustration, Rel Stuart is portrayed as looking like Theodore Roosevelt). </P>

Who would have been president if the south won the civil war