What If. . . the south had been allowed to secede peacefully? And therein lies the problem, regret at living in a vast future vice living in a backward, slaveholding nation, frozen in the past The Confederacy and it's ideals are exactly where they should be On the ash heap of history as one of America's worst ideas You see the "what if" Confederacy
When did Missouri Secede? | Wartime Politics, Debates In the town of Neosho, Missouri, Jackson called the state legislature into session They enacted a secession ordinance, recognized by the Confederacy on October 30, 1861 So technically yes and no, the state governor and all the southern supporters did in fact secede and set up a government recognized by the south
Was North Carolina or Tennessee the last state to secede from the Union . . . Maryland did not secede because the Federal government arrested and imprisoned the governor and the state legislators, who were for secession If they had been left at large they surely would have convened the legislature and passed an ordinance of secession, taking Maryland out of the Union
Why Did Arkansas Secede? | Southern Declarations of Secession “Resolved, That the assembling of an army at Washington, under the plea that there would be an attempt on the capital, was but a miserable pretext, poorly disguised–the true object being, first, to intimidate us into submission; and if that failed, then to carry out the policy indicated in his inaugural address, which is both humiliating to southern honor and destructive to southern
What If. . . Georgia Did Not Secede? - American Civil War Forums Secessionists were those who thought that Georgia should secede immediately Keep in mind that Howell Cobb, Tom Cobb, and others had been campaigning - literally They planned a "campaign trail" of sorts, selecting key cities and town where opposition was likely
Why Did Virginia Secede ? | Slavery as the Cause for Secession Regardless of the precipitating event, Virginia's vote to secede and join the Confederate states reflects that it valued slavery and state's rights to maintain slavery more than Union Reactions: CW Buff , Eric Calistri , BuckeyeWarrior and 5 others
Should (would) the northern states of Mexico ever secede? (neighborhood . . . There is no secessionist movements in any of these states And considering the fact that Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, and Chihuahua are currently large epicenters of drug related violence, they wouldn't be able to fend for themselves if they did secede Those states need to be part of Mexico to remain successful
President John Bell, no secession? | Other Soldiers, Politicians, Men Bell would have probably allowed the Southern states to secede without the use of force to stop them, but Bell's popularity in parts of the South may have caused fewer Southern states to secede In the end I suspect most Sothern states would have seceded if Bell became president Maybe some of the bordor states would have stayed in the Union
If Kentucky and Missouri had seceded from the Union, what would be the . . . I think the major defensive positions are Paducah and Louisville as they secede after Ft Sumter ITTL I can see the Union planning a flanking strategy for Louisville but they probably need to face Paducah head on I can see about 3 4ths of the state falling by late 1861 early 1862 and the rest occupied by the end of 1862