Bruno, as always was apt with his foresight. Roosevelt's death did not end the fighting in the United States. If anything, it acted as an immediate escalation.
In a time of collapse, weakness was the greatest sin of all. And the death of a national leader was the greatest weakness a faction could display to the world. One that was difficult to hide.
Despite initially planning to hold off on their plans to invade and annex the District of Columbia as part of Virginia's borders, the New Confederacy's armies marched into the city in full force the moment Roosevelt's death was announced.
The city fell without a shot being fired. As many of the soldiers on the "Union's" side had been thoroughly defeated long before the battle ever began. And the death of their President was the end of whatever will to fight they had left within them.
But the capture of the old capital did not have immediate stabilizing reverberations for the rest of North America.
