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take an oath of loyalty
When a state left the Union it was called secession.
Henry Clay
Robert E Lee became the commander of the confederacy. He quit the Union army where he was an officer and when Virginia left the union he went with his state.
Each state that had seceded from the Union had to go through several steps. They had to permanently abolish slavery, have a fraction of all men sign a loyalty oath to the United States, and agree never to attempt to secede again.
The 10% of the voters of 1860.
state has left the union
Loyalty to his state (Virginia).
take an oath of loyalty
none. all the states were in the union. the otheones left the union.
Iron clad oath
It was important because Maryland was a slave state with pro confederate leaders.
Robert E. Lee .
Georgia
Seven
He was the president of the union; therefore, that's where who his loyalty belonged to.
Wade-Davis Bill