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The Border States were slave states that shared a border with free states to the north. These included Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri. As a rule, the Border States maintained strong cultural ties with the South, but important economic relationships with the North.
All remained in the Union after the outbreak of the Civil War, except Virginia. Sentiment in that state's 40 western counties, however, was strongly against secession. In 1861 those counties seceded from Virginia – forming West Virginia, which formally entered the Union in 1863.
Border States In The Civil War
And in the Western border states Federal troops had to be kept from the front to hold the occupied territory from Confederate invaders. Soldiers also policed the polls to protect loyal Unionists during wartime elections. Though the border states ...
http://www.civilwarhome.com/borderstates.htm
Could the South have won Poll
... most likely to cause the Confederacy to win the War over the United States? The border states seceding with the rest of the South "Stonewall" Jackson survives and continues to lead General Lee being placed in command from the War's outset ...
http://www.civilweek.com/html/poll2.htm
the images
All were featured on notes issued in seceded states and most border states. Where images have not been previously named by experts, the standard technique of referencing visual detail will be used to distinguish one image from another ...
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/BeyondFaceValue/images/images.htm
