North America
- Province of Canada
- Governor: The Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon, Governor of the Province of Canada (1861–1867)
- Joint Premiers:
- Sir Étienne Paschal Taché and Sir John A. Macdonald, Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada (1864–1865)
- Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau, Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada (1865–1867)
- Confederate States of America - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (1861–1865)
- Costa Rica - Jesús Jiménez Zamora, President of Costa Rica (1863–1866)
- Honduras - José María Medina, President of Honduras (1863–1872)
- Mexico: Maximilian of Habsburg, Emperor of Mexico (1864–1867)
- United States of America
- Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States (1861–1865)
- Andrew Johnson, President of the United States (1865–1869)
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“I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be revolutionary but not transformative.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)