The South did not want Lincoln to be the President. At a meeting in the town of Montgomery, Alabama they formed a new government called the Confederate States of America.

Secession involves the refusal to obey any ... "is not an occurrence so alarming as to justifyhaste in the action which the Southern States may feel called upon to take." This is consoling ...

The country will watch with not a little anxiety the action of each and all the Legislatures of the newly reorganized Southern ... action upon the State ordinances of secession.

The state of Mississippi seceded on Jan. 9 ... It has long been claimed that northwest Louisiana was the birthplace of Southern Secession. However, Rocky Mount’s secession in Oct. 1860 did ...

November 6th has witnessed a plethora of significant events that have shaped the course of history across the globe.One of ...

A new candidate for sheriff in Texas has pledged to support the state's secession from the union ... Sheriff Salazar ...

Democratic critics immediately cried foul at Abbott's use of "compact" language in the immigration fight, noting its history as a legal rationale for Southern ... secession activists from other ...

The citizens of seven Illinois counties have voted to consider splitting from the state’s most populous county, Cook County, ...