Robert Barnwell Rhett, the Father of Southern Nationalism, explained using clear language in his memoir the root of the conflict between the North and South in the 1860s. Rhett, who had served as a US Senator and a representative in the provisional Confederate Congress, wrote a report in the latter capacity which explained to European governments as well as to...
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Maryland sits just below the Mason-Dixon line politically separating the North and South and the State had strong historical ties to Virginia and the South that were exhibited in the four-way presidential race of 1860. Abraham Lincoln got only 2,294 votes in Maryland, just 2.48% of the vote. The Southern Democrat Breckenridge got 42,482 votes,...
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The State of Delaware was regarded as a border State before Lincoln’s war against the South. It had almost no slaves – 91.7% of its Black population was free in 1860. By that time, the largest slave owner in the State owned a mere 16 slaves. However, like the rest of the South, Delaware...
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