The Secession Movement in the Middle Atlantic StatesFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973 - 274 sider This diligent study discusses the reaction of five border states to the secession movement of 1860-1861--Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pensylvania, and New York. |
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