<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> 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>
who would have been president if the south won the civil war
who would have been president if the south won the civil war
James Longstreet
James Longstreet