If then, the addition of twenty States did nothing to constitute the Union complete, that being complete at its very origin, how can it be maintained or imagined that the secession of a single ...

Such was not the purpose of naming Bossier a free state in 1860. Was the “Free State of Bossier” the first secession in the South? Nov. 26, 1860, when the Free State of Bossier was formed ...

Several speeches were made, some favoring prompt secession measures, and others a resort to negotiation. Resolutions were adopted approving of a call for a State Convention, to adopt measures to ...

The election of a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, as President in 1860 sealed the deal ... only alternative they believed was left to them: secession, a political decision that led directly to ...

Though it is hard to know what he could have done during the “Secession Winter” of 1860–61 (when the Confederacy formed and broke away from the United States), his passivity condemns him.

I mean, if you looked objectively at the lineup in 1860, it was fairly clear he was ... t like to admit today that slavery was the cause of secession, which led in turn to the Civil War.

Charleston, South Carolina, April 12, 1861 – the birthplace of secession, and tempers were on edge. In December 1860, the state of South Carolina declared itself independent and severed ties ...