Yes, there were battles in Missouri at the beginning, and later in Kentucky.
They were border states for the Union and Confederate. Maryland was especially important because it contained the U.S. capital (Washington D.C.)
Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri
They were allowed to continue practising slavery during hostilities. In the case of Missouri, the government had limited control over it, and guerrilla war continued to the end.
Maryland Kentucky Missouri.
The border states during the Civil War were Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri.
jayhawkers: a free soil or unionist guerrilla in kansas and Missouri during the border disputes!!
Border States refer to the slave states that remained loyal to the Union during the American Civil War. These states included Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. They were strategically important because of their geographical location between the North and South.
Delaware Kentucky Maryland Missouri and west Virginia
The three border states during the US Civil War were Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland. The were slave states but did not join the Confederacy. Delaware also had slaves and was not "on the border" between the North and the South
These were the two biggest border-states - that is, slave-states of the Upper South, that had stayed loyal to the Union. With these states, Lincoln had to be especially diplomatic, to persuade them not to go Confederate.
ANSWER In the Confederacy : 3,024,745; in the Border States (Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland) 312,473