Originally posted by Racer X 69 And wasn't Missouri on the side of the Confederacy?
Missouri was a border state.
"In the context of the American Civil War, the border states were slave states that had not declared a secession from the Union (the ones that did so later joined the Confederacy). Four slave states had never declared a secession: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri."
"In Kentucky and Missouri, there were both pro-Confederate and pro-Union governments." *
The politics of Missouri are
to this day divided by mid-19th C. sentiments
*
Wiki
P.S. My family history here begins in the 17th C. in Maryland, progresses through Virginia in the 18th and much of the 19th, into Kentucky before the war and then to St. Louis in the 20th.
Some would say
I am divided, (I have Kentucky antecedents who fought on both sides) but I consider myself a
Jeffersonian Democrat (look it up) and intentionally attended The University of Virginia.
I've long thought I was born 150 years too late.
Which is why I won't buy a K-3 (A house divided against itself cannot stand).
Last edited by monochrome; 10-18-2014 at 11:21 AM.