[DoodleDawg]

Try to keep up dear. Every time a state voted to secede, that was another iteration.

Didn't the Confederacy say that 13 states had seceded? Not 11?

[jeffersondem]

“Didn’t the Confederacy say that 13 states had seceded? Not 11?”

Kentucky and Missouri were aspirational. They did have representatives in the Confederacy but the states were never completely liberated.

My earlier reference to eleven was another attempt by me to avoid controversy.

[DiogenesLamp]

Didn't the Confederacy say that 13 states had seceded? Not 11?

Is this a matter of debate for you? There were 11 states that joined the confederacy. Four or five (depending on how you define it) Union slave states stayed in the Union.