All people alive during the American Civil War would experience different lives after the turning point of the loss to the Union of Colonel Phillip Sheridan on December 31, 1862, at the Battle of Muphreesboro. In this alternate time line, the Union forces there were not able to retreat, but were taken captive. Soon afterwards, most of the Union forces in Tennessee had withdrawn to Kentucky. This page is a gateway to the biographies of people, mostly presidents of the two Americas, as their lives would have changed.