. Elwood's stories of the old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865 [electronic resource]: the first three year cavalry of the Civil War : with introduction by the Rev. Ryland . ofFebruary Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Louisianaand Texas, making seven in all, had withdrawn from theUnion. A seceding senator boasted that they had left thenational government a corpse lying in state in Wash-ington. Mr. Lincolns call for troops forced the remainingslave states to decide at once whether they would remainin the Union or go out. Virginia joined the Confederacyand thus greatly increased the diffic
. Elwood's stories of the old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865 [electronic resource]: the first three year cavalry of the Civil War : with introduction by the Rev. Ryland . ofFebruary Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Louisianaand Texas, making seven in all, had withdrawn from theUnion. A seceding senator boasted that they had left thenational government a corpse lying in state in Wash-ington. Mr. Lincolns call for troops forced the remainingslave states to decide at once whether they would remainin the Union or go out. Virginia joined the Confederacyand thus greatly increased the difficulties that the Northhad to contend with in a military way. Arkansas, Tennes-see and North Carolina quickly followed the example ofVirginia. Four slave states, Delaware, Tennessee, Ken-tucky and Missouri did not secede. These states seceded because they believed that theelection of Mr. Lincoln meant that the North was going tobring about the liberation of the negroes. This was a mis-take but they could not be convinced to the contrary. Theysaw that they had lost the power that they once had incongress. The free states had six more senators and fifty- AT NEW CREEK 41. HENRY MITCHELL AND HIS ONLY GRANDCHILDIRENE GLADYS MITCHELL 42 ELWOODS STORIES seven more representatives than the slave states had. Thenthey believed that slavery would thrive better if separatedfrom the influence of the North. These states also believedthat any state had a right to withdraw from the Unionwhen it was for its own interests to do so. Delegates from the states that had already seceded metat Montgomery, Alabama, on the 4th of February, 1861,and formed a new government under the name of The Con-federate States of North America. Jefferson Davis ofMississippi was elected provisional President, and Alex-ander H. Stephens, Vice-President. The day before thebattle of Bull Bun the new Confederate government wasorganized in Richmond. Here the Southern congress explains the desire on the part of the g
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