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At the beginning of the Civil War, the Union had 19 states, not including the four border states that did not secede. The Confederacy had only 11.
The Confederate border states were Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. Although these states were geographically located on or near the border between the North and South, they did not secede from the Union to join the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the rebelling states (the confederacy) and did not free the slaves in the five border states.
- they had many factories and resources needed by both sides during the war.