The official position is that they remained neutral although that neutrality was broken early in the Civil War by everyone. As a border state they were occupied by the belligerents and some residents chose to fight on each side. The Russellville Convention passed an Ordinance of Secession and a shadow government was established which gave representation to the Confederate states. The existing state government however remained in place.
The states that DID NOT secede from the Union was Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. These four states did not secede from the Union because They were Border states, meaning they were between the Union and the Confederacy.
Weat Virginia Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, and Kentucky were five slave states that did not secede the Union, and the were were called border states.
Maryland and Delaware. There were also Kentucky and Missouri, that we might classify as Northern, as they fought for the Union (the North) in the war.
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Borders do not secede but states do. Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri were border states that did not secede in the union.
The states that DID NOT secede from the Union was Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. These four states did not secede from the Union because They were Border states, meaning they were between the Union and the Confederacy.
Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, and Kentucky.
they didnt
November 20, 1861.
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware.
It is hillbilly for Will Kentucky secede from the Union during the Civil War.
Delaware (perhaps the most overlooked border state), Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri were the border states that did not secede from the Union.
Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland.
There were four slave states that did not secede from the union, Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. Slaves in these states were not freed till after the civil war; not even by the Emancipation Proclamation.
Four slave-states of the Upper South - Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware.
Weat Virginia Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, and Kentucky were five slave states that did not secede the Union, and the were were called border states.