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Tag Archives: Secession Crisis
Enemy on the Georgia Home Front
Wesley Shropshire returned home from the secession convention in Milledgeville, Georgia dejected and distressed. Once final passage of the secession ordinance was certain, most Union delegates changed their votes to give the measure more force, but not Shropshire. He departed … Continue reading
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Tagged Georgia, homefront, Rome Georgia, Secession Crisis, Unionist
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January 10, 1861 in Florida
On this date in Tallahassee, Florida, the delegates to the state’s secession convention voted 62-7, in favor of secession. With that vote, after seven days of deliberation, Florida became the third state to formally declare itself out of the United … Continue reading