State Compromises

So here is a map specifically on the two main compromises between the USA and CSA in my new "American Empire" series. This only pertains to compromises between border states, so there is more to come. Im trying to be very careful and very detailed with this series, so Ill be making a lot of small maps like this to show specific changes.

On the left, the border state of Missouri officially secedes from the Union after the Confederate victory at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Fighting breaks out between the minority Union supporters and the majority Confederate supporters. When the war ends in 1865, there are still some in Missouri who refuse to accept Conferate rule. A compromise is created where by Missouri is split in two, with 2/3rds of the state below the Missouri River becomes the Confederate state of Missouri, and the 1/3rd of the state above the river remaining under Union control. At the time, northern Missouri had a population of below 60,000, no major cities, no independent infrastructure, and it was torn apart of Confederate offenses. Because of these setbacks, instead of becoming a state, northern Missouri was annexed my the US state of Iowa. Officially "The border between the Union state of Iowa and the Confederate state of Missouri, shall be lowered to the Missouri River itself." The Missourian state capital was moved to Springfield, because the major cities of Kansas City, Jefferson City, and St. Luis were all located on the southern shore of the Missouri River and seceptible to Union attack.

On the right, with the CSA prevailing over the USA, the Confederate state of Virginia recieved more land in the west than it did OTL. After the CSA won, the young Union state of West Virginia officially changed its name back to Kanawha, splitting from the "Virginian" identity for good. The Kanawha capital constantly switched from Charelston to Wheeling, and officially moved to Clarksburg, about midway between the two, a little over a decade after the war.


Most of the questions that I suspect will be asked are about the Kanawha-Virginia border, and all I have to say is "I DIDNT MAKE IT MYSELF. THIS WAS THE OFFICIAL BORDER OF WV BEFORE THE END OF THE WAR OTL."