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.