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The Border States were those of the Upper South which did not secede. They were Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware.

The other four states of the Upper South joined the Confederacy after the Battle of Fort Sumter, when Lincoln called for volunteer troops to fight for the Union.

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