The upper southern states seceded when Lincoln was elected President of the United States.
States in the upper south
Secession Dates of the Southern Southern States:South Carolina - December 20, 1860Mississippi - January 9, 1861Florida - January 10, 1861Alabama - January 11, 1861Georgia - January 19, 1861Louisiana - January 26, 1861Texas - February 1, 1861On February 8, 1861, the first six states to secede formed the Confederate States of America, with Texas being admitted to the Confederacy about three weeks later, two days before Abraham Lincoln took office. These are all of the states that seceded during the presidency of James Buchanan, who did not order any response because he believed they had the right to secede if they wanted to.
The official name of the seceded southern states during the American Civil War was The Confederate States of America. Established in 1861, it was a secessionist government started by seven slave states (that had declared their secession from the United States following the November 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln, whom they considered to be an abolitionist. After the beginning of the civil war, four states in the Upper South also declared secession. Although two Border States were accepted as members (Kentucky and Missouri), neither officially declared secession and were basically just factions within states that stayed loyal to the Union forces.
The South was the Confederacy - the eleven states that had seceded from the USA. The North meant all the other states, and these included four states of the Upper South that had remained loyal. But their loyalty was often uncertain (a major worry to Lincoln), and all of them recruited some regiments of Confederates.
In the run-up to the war, the eight slave-states of the Upper South were undecided which side they would support if the South broke away. After the attack on Fort Sumter, and Lincoln's appeal for volunteers (the nearest thing to a declaration of war), four of these states voted to join the Confederacy. The other four were largely divided, and Lincoln's biggest priority was to keep these states loyal. Perhaps only a man of Lincoln's talent could have succeeded in this. Slave states in the Union means what it says. Though rarely taught in school,the Union had 5 slave states. MD,DE,MO,KY,and West VA. On the answer above,Lincoln did not call for volunteers as much as he DEMANDED that the states go South and invade the 7 seceded Cotton States. VA,NC,TN,and AR refused and Abe pushed the demand. Those 4 then seceded. Lincoln wanted 75,000 for 90 days. That call increased to over 2 million men and the war was 4 years. Not sure about the talent in that.
The states of the upper South, such as Virginia and Tennessee seceded from the United States in 1861.
States in the upper south
Secession Dates of the Southern Southern States:South Carolina - December 20, 1860Mississippi - January 9, 1861Florida - January 10, 1861Alabama - January 11, 1861Georgia - January 19, 1861Louisiana - January 26, 1861Texas - February 1, 1861On February 8, 1861, the first six states to secede formed the Confederate States of America, with Texas being admitted to the Confederacy about three weeks later, two days before Abraham Lincoln took office. These are all of the states that seceded during the presidency of James Buchanan, who did not order any response because he believed they had the right to secede if they wanted to.
Tennessee was the last of the eleven Southern states to declare secession from the Union as a substantial portion of the population were against secession. Tennessee seceded from the United States on June 8, 1861.
Tennessee was one of the four slave-states of the Upper South which seceded as a result of the Fort Sumter assault and Lincoln's call for volunteers. The other four stayed loyal - to Lincoln's immense relief.
Following Lincoln's call for troops after the attack on Fort Sumter, four states initially seceded from the Union: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, and Alabama. They were later joined by Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina, making a total of eleven states that seceded.
Four. Of the eight states of the Upper South, four narrowly voted Confederate, and the other four narrowly voted Union.
Arkansas, Tennessee , Nort Carolina and Virgina
The first seven were South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Texas. After the firing on Fort Sumter, and Lincoln's appeal for volunteer troops, four states of the Upper South joined them - North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas.
There were eleven. First was South Carolina. Then the six states of the Lower South followed, one after another. Then, after the surrender of Fort Sumter, Lincoln retaliated by appealing for volunteers for the Union army. And this sent four states of the Upper South into the Confederacy, while the other four narrowly voted to remain loyal.
The Union garrison withdrew. Lincoln called for new volunteer troops. The South took this to be a notional declaration of war, and four states of of the Upper South joined the Confederacy. The two sides were lined up. The war was on.
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas