The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...

Virginia Secession Convention: “Resolution 2: African slavery is a vital part of the social system of the States wherein it exists … any interference to its prejudice by the federal authority ...

The Confederate battle flag became the rallying symbol of that secession. The Civil War ended in 1865. Slavery as an institution ended, but the subjugation of African Americans continued for ...

sentiment on secession.; the views of senator douglas. letter from hon. r.a. pryor. letter from hon. j.b. haskin. the position of california. miscellaneous indications.

Florida was the third state to secede from the Union during the Civil War. Around 15,000 Floridians ... the "smallest tadpole in the dirty pool of secession." It was too remote and sparsely ...

This month is the 159th anniversary of the late unpleasantness of the 1861-65 period that I prefer to call the War of Secession ... who was shot by a Confederate sharpshooter at the Battle ...

Responding to a letter from a screenwriter working ... Lee that essentially ended the Civil War spurred by the attempted secession of Texas and other states. Eric McDaniel, associate professor ...

I fear that secession and revolution are, with our people, foregone conclusions; that we have gone to far, retraction and recession are impossible, and that civil war with all its consequent ...

In his Dec. 10 letter, Daniel Mead states ... derived from primary sources such as the Confederate Constitution, firsthand reporting on the Florida Secession Convention and contemporaneous ...

Southerners fought the Civil War, in part, for “states rights" as well as holding people in bondage. President Lincoln believed he ended the “theory” at Appomattox with the surrender of the ...