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1860 Republican Convention
... a Republican president would lead to secession, Lincoln compared this to "a highwayman ...

Alexander Stephens
... the Union. Stephens spoke strongly against secession, and many people listened. In the ... in the hands of nationalistic politicians, secession wa

Battle of Middle Creek

Compromise of 1850
... Georgia and South Carolina agreed that secession was a possible answer to the ...

Convention of Seceding States
... Texas, was completing its process of secession. They, too, would send delegates to ... vote for a state-wide convention on secession. Persuasive a

Edmund Ruffin
... reelection of Seward in 1868 brings secession, then a war that takes place ... Ruffin began a heavy schedule of pro-Secession speeches in October,

Election of 1876
... Democrats for everything from slavery and secession to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. ...

Encounter at the Marshall House
... vote on the Virginia Ordinance of Secession, approved by the Virginia Secession Convention on mdy:April 23, 1861. With ...

Fall of Nashville, February, 1862
... city was heavily in favor of secession. Albert Sidney Johnston decided to string ...

Felix Zollicoffer
... over the coming war. Following Tennessee's secession he was appointed Brigadier General of ...

First Wheeling Convention
... Charles Lewis, nominees to the Virginia Secession Convention were strongly pro-Union and vowed separation if the convention backed secession. Anot

Florida Ordinance of Secession
Ordinance of Secession We, the people of the State ...

Fort Sumter
... adjutant-general, was worried because of Floyd's pro-secession stance. With Floyd's resignation on date:December ...

George McClellan

Georgia Convention of 1850
... Georgia and South Carolina voted for secession. Towns called for a special convention ...

Harpers Ferry
... of the Civil War Following the secession of Virginia, Harpers Ferry was a ... of Virginians emboldened by the Virginia Secession Convention's vote

John Floyd
... pro-slavery Unionist who maintained his strong anti-secession views even after the South seceded. ... who correctly predicted the effect of secess

Jubal Anderson Early

Maryland and Secession
... will firmly resist being dragged into secession." Governor Hicks reiterated his intention of ... county met in Baltimore to discuss secession, but

Nashville Convention of 1850
... "too radical" on the subject of secession. All slave states were invited to ... Northern aggression" pushed a slate of pro-secession delegates thr

Official Records
... 4, 1861 Chapter II - The secession of Georgia. Jan. 3-26, 1861. Chapter III - The secession of Alabama and Mississippi. Jan. 4-20, ... 31, 1861. C

P. G. T. Beauregard

Philippi
... the Union developed formally at an anti-secession meeting in Monongahela County on mdy:April ... that the eastern Virginians voted for secession.

Robert Barnwell Rhett
... of control federal government and advocating secession to remedy the problem. When a ... known to this day at the "Secession Oak," called for the

Robert E. Lee
... from the Union peaceably. In mid-January, secession forces in Texas began a push ...

Salmon P. Chase
... perfect Union," making the act of secession null. Since this case involved bonds ...

Second Confiscation Act (Full Text)
... date of the pretended ordinance of secession of the state, or shall have ...

Second Wheeling Convention
... near the Ohio River, ratios against secession had been as high as 20 ... for West Virginia to nullify the secession of Virginia by becoming a stat

Speech by John C. Calhoun, March 4, 1850
... forced to choose between abolition and secession? Indeed, as events are now moving, ...

Statement of Protest to Georgia Secession
... Ordinance for the immediate and separate Secession of this State, and would have ...

Tennessee Ordinance of Secession
... as to the abstract doctrine of secession, but asserting the right, as a ...

The Election of 1860
... victory and immediately began moving towards secession. The other Deep South states quickly ...

Utah War

Virginia Secession Convention
... the Legislature was called into session. Secession had begun and many, including Letcher, ... a convention on the question of secession. A week la

Winfield Scott
... next assignment. South Carolina was threatening secession over their right to nullify a ... had not taken a position on secession, most people ass