Last Best Hope

1865: The South has won the Civil War. Robert E. Lee is President of the Confederate States of America, and Abraham Lincoln is paralyzed and a fugitive., protected by remnants of the defeated Union Army after being shot in the spine when Washington was sacked by the Rebels. Slavery is legal and has penetrated all sectors of the land that was once the United States of America. John Wilkes Booth, Nathan Bedford Forest, and the Pinkertons all play a pivotal role in the shaping of the now permanent slave-holding nation. Set in the oil boom area of Northwest Pennsylvania, The Last Best Hope, A Civil War Alternate History follows the lives of those impacted by both stunning victory and shameful defeat in the aftermath of the War Between the States.