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Border States (U.S. Civil War)

Here are entered works dealing collectively with the states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia, during the Civil War era.

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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006006444
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2006006444#concept

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Upper South (U.S. Civil War)

Broader Terms

Southern States

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Sources

found: Work cat.: 2005901731: Divided loyalties, c2005:t.p. (Border States of the Upper South: Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri)

found: Concise dic. of Am. hist., c1983(Border States; slave states bordering on the North consisting of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri; none seceded except Virginia, from which West Virginia separated)

found: Wikipedia WWW homepage, Aug. 25, 2006(Border states (Civil War); refers to five slave states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia that were on the border between the Northern Union states and the Southern slave states that formed the Confederate States of America)

General Notes

Here are entered works dealing collectively with the states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia, during the Civil War era.

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Change Notes

2006-08-25: new
2006-11-08: revised

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