Virginia

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Eighth State to secede, leading the wave of post-Sumter secessions on April 17th, 1861. Most populous State of the Confederacy. Home of many of the Confederacy's greatest commanders: Robert E. Lee, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, J.E.B. Stuart, and Robert Emmett Rodes.

And of the lesser lights like Joseph E. Johnston, Tom Rosser, Jubal Early, and George Pickett.

Virginia seceded not over Slavery, Trade Tariff Taxes, nor even States Rights; but a refusal to attack the Confederacy, as well as the Lincoln administration's handling of the incident at Fort Sumter, as recorded by the testimony of Colonel Baldwin in AMERICA'S CAESAR by Greg Loren Durand.