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- Robert E. Lees view of secession, late 1860- early 1861
The following is a synopsis of the views of Robert E Lee on secession in the 4 months before he resigned his commission in the US Army Largely taken from William Southall Freeman's work on Lee: ----- Letter to his son Custis, December 14, 1860: "It is, however, my only hope for the
- William T. Sherman Warns the South - American Civil War Forums
In a 24 Dec 1860 conversation with David Boyd, one of his professors at the Louisiana Seminary [which would later become LSU] regarding South Carolina's secession, Sherman is reported to have said: "You, you the people of the South, believe there can be such a thing as peaceable secession You
- How Many Southerners Favored Secession? - American Civil War Forums
Prior to the start of the Civil War, on April 12, 1861, how many Southerners actually were in favor of secession? There's no way of knowing exactly, since there was no polling back then and only one Southern state actually put the issue to a voter referendum The closest thing we have to a
- Master List of Contemporary Quotes Identifying Slavery as the Principal . . .
On another recent thread, when a poster cited the first substantive paragraph of a well-known source, the State of Mississippi's Declaration of Immediate Causes for Secession, as evidence that secessionist leaders considered the future of slavery to be the principal issue behind their actions
- Jefferson Album - Texas Civil War Town
Secession Hall Built in 1856, this house takes its grandiose title from having been the home of Judge William Smith Todd, another member of the Texas Secession Convention and a signer of the Texas Ordinance of Secession
- Thomas Jefferson, Secession, and States Rights
The record seems clear that Thomas Jefferson believed in the right of secession In 1803, Jefferson said he did not care if America split into two confederacies: Whether we remain in one confederacy, or form into Atlantic and Mississippi confederacies, I believe not very important to the
- Lee - Lees Changing View of Secession | Famous People of the Late . . .
The problem with Lee's view of secession is that people in nearly identical circumstances, David Farragut, Winfield Scott, George Thomas, and some of Lee's cousins reached the exact opposite conclusion
- Secession Cockade? - American Civil War Forums
How does one identify a secession cockade? I picked this ambrotype up at an estate sale in rural Lincoln Talladega AL area Looking for more info
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