Border states (American Civil War)
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border-states-american-civil-war-169-12089124
title:
Border states (American Civil War)
text:
In the American Civil War (1861–65), the border states or the Border South were four, later five, slave states in the Upper South that primarily supported the Union. They were Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, and after 1863, the new state of West Virginia. To their north they bordered free states of the Union, and all but Delaware bordered slave states of the Confederacy to their south. Of the 34 U.S. states in 1861, nineteen were free states and fifteen were slave including the four
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Slave states that did not secede from the Union during the American Civil War
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_states_(American_Civil_War)
date created:
2004-01-11T22:06:22Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T15:07:59Z
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13
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