I keep on getting confused about this. I always thought that the southern slave states were the confederates and the nothern free states were the Union. But this passage from my History book confused me:
"In April and May, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennesse seceded, bringing the number of Confederate states to eleven. The western counties of Virginia opposed slavery, so they seceded from Virginia and were admitted into the Union as West Virginia in 1863. The four remaining slaves states --- Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missour --- remained in the Union."
How do the four remaining states remain in the Union, I thought they were confederate?
Will someone clear this up for me?
2006-08-30
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