Never heard of this before. Please tell us which. --Yooden
Actually, Missouri sort-of seceded. Read the first chapter of Castell's General Sterling Price and the Civil War West of the Mississippi. He describes the secession convention voting against secession, then a federal army occupying the capital. At this point, the governor and half the legislature escaped and passed an ordnance of secession, while the remainder welcomed the federal troops and replaced their colleagues.
The legality of Missouri's secession was hotly debated even within the Confederate congress, which eventually decided to admit Missouri into the Confederacy and recognize the rump legislature-in-exile as the legimate government of the state. Given federal occupation of most of the state, however, the confederate government was run from Sherman, Texas during the war. This government did, however, launch serious attempts to reclaim the state, under command of Missouri generals leading Missouri forces. Notably Price's Raid of 1864, in which elections were held for the confederate government of the state in what territory the confederates could recapture.
Actually, I've just read that the MO capital was Camden AR, and then Marshall TX. Updating the article accordingly. -Ben Brumfield
Ummm.. no one of my mother's generation (born in 1940) would consider that as even half humourously. Many people in the deep south (Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, etc.) believe completely that it was a war of Northern Agression. Generally, the closer their families lived to the land desecrated by General Sherman, the deeper it is believed.
I've only heard it mentioned as a humorous name by people whose forefathers didn't have to live through the after effects of the war. (Though honestly, I expect this is true of most wars)
But that's neither here nor there.
I'm adding three other names to the article that I don't see mentioned.
1.War of the Rebellion (used in the North officially, along with some nastier ones I don't remember): the Official Records published by the army have this title. 2.War of Southern Independence (seen on a monument on the UGA campus) 3.War in Defence of Virginia (on Confederate muster rolls compiled after the fact by veterans organizations)
Can we please come up with a neutral explanation of the causes of the war, without the continuous ideological shuffling of slavery between "primary" and "also included"?
Suggestions:
I'm trying to understand if there was some self-interest from the Union's point of view in waging a war. I mean, did the Union really care for human-rights and was a true anti-slavery figure or was there something else? :Yaron Dorman[?]
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