President Robert E. Lee

Woke up with this little story in my head. I'll never write it because it would require way too much research:

"President Robert E. Lee looked out his office windows over the graves at Arlington Cemetery.  Buried there, at his insistence,  were soldiers of both sides of the War Between the States.

After the rout at Gettysburg, when the Federalist forces had unexpectedly collapsed and the the loyalist army had marched into the capital, he'd given his estate to the government. They'd let him keep his corner office for visits.

He was due back at the White House the next day. He'd spent the morning idly perusing a stack of Lincoln papers on the corner.  The tyrant had fled to Canada, but he continued to spew useless Abolitionist propaganda, which was about to become moot with the passage of the 13th Amendment.

Lee's Gettysburg address had turned the tide of opinion, and his words were emblazoned over the arches at the entrance of the cemetery.

"Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation. Conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that the Federal Government shall not impose it's will on the people without their consent."

  Upon winning his third term, he come up with the plan of buying out the slaveowners with federal subsidies. It was going to be a tough battle to get the southern states to ratify the amendment, but Lee had never been more popular. He was confident he could get it done."