The Confederate leaders wanted as many states as possible to join them. Whether non-slave states could join was moot, since all of the non-slave states were in favor of preserving the Union.
Border States.
Vicksburg isolated the southern states west of the Mississippi from the states in the Deep South. It also allowed Federal forces to turn their attention to destroying the infrastructure of the South to hasten the end of the war.
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The Confederacy was not a state. It was a group of states that declared themselves as a nation separate from the United States. The states that joined it were slave states.
In the terms of the 1860's the "border states" were slave holding states that did not join the Confederacy but were allowed to retain their slaves. Geographically, Kentucky and Missouri were a buffer of sorts between the South and the North. Maryland surrounded the city of Washington DC making it necessary to prevent it from joining the Confederacy. Delaware's location and very small slave population were not important.
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Border States.
Border states or Buffer states
The Confederacy lost the United States Civil War.The states formed a confederacy. We joined the confederacy.
Lincoln allowed slavery to continue there - so as not to drive those states into the arms of the Confederacy.
They were on the border between the two sections. Their choice of allegiance was crucial to the outcome of the war. That is why Lincoln allowed slavery to continue in those four states - for fear of driving them into the arms of the Confederacy.
The southern states were the Confederacy. All the states from Virginia down to Texas, Florida, Mississippi etc. were in the Confederacy.
11 states were part of the confederacy in 1865 .
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia were all slave states that remained in the Union.
Kentucky was allowed to stay neutral at the beginning - Lincoln was worried about driving it into the arms of the Confederacy.
The Slave Holding States of the Confederacy.
the border states didnt secede to the union or the confederacy the five border states arewest virginiamarylanddelewarekentuckymissouri