County | For Secession | Against Secession | Now in West Virginia |
---|---|---|---|
Accomac | Not Found | ||
Albemarle | 2308 | 1 | |
Alexandria | 958 | 48 | |
Alleghany | 554 | 12 | |
Amelia | 472 | 0 | |
Amherst | 1492 | 0 | |
Appomattox | 805 | 0 | |
Augusta | 3130 | 10 | |
Barbour | 857 | 626 | Yes |
Bath | 403 | 2 | |
Bedford | 2329 | 1 | |
Berkeley | 508 | 1303 | Yes |
Boone | 317 | 226 | Yes |
Botetourt | 1207 | 2 | |
Braxton | 553 | 114 | Yes |
Brooke | 109 | 721 | Yes |
Brunswick | 840 | 0 | |
Buchanan | Not Found | ||
Buckingham | 1062 | 0 | |
Cabell | 232 | 882 | Yes |
Calhoun | 279 | 81 | Yes |
Campbell | 2504 | 0 | |
Caroline | 1245 | 0 | |
Carroll | 867 | 130 | |
Charles City | 311 | 1 | |
Charlotte | 883 | 0 | |
Chesterfield | 1421 | 0 | |
Clarke | Not Found | ||
Clay | 102 | 102 | Yes |
Craig | Not found | ||
Culpeper | 1051 | 0 | |
Cumberland | 523 | 0 | |
Dinwiddie | 805 | 1 | |
Doddridge | Not Found | Yes | |
Elizabeth City | 343 | 6 | |
Essex | 581 | 0 | |
Fairfax | 942 | 288 | |
Fauquier | 1809 | 4 | |
Fayette | 508 | 223 | |
Floyd | 896 | 20 | |
Fluvanna | 880 | 0 | |
Franklin | 1787 | 3 | |
Frederick | 1503 | 359 | |
Giles | 1067 | 0 | |
Gilmer | 338 | 186 | Yes |
Gloucester | 860 | 1 | |
Goochland | 673 | 0 | |
Grayson | 1077 | 0 | |
Greenbrier | 1016 | 110 | Yes |
Greene | 604 | 0 | |
Greensville | 322 | 0 | |
Halifax | 1747 | 0 | |
Hampshire | 1110 | 700 | Yes |
Hancock | 23 | 743 | Yes |
Hanover | 1240 | 0 | |
Hardy | 768 | 538 | Yes |
Harrison | 614 | 1691 | Yes |
Henrico | 1712 | 0 | |
Henry | 925 | 1 | |
Highland | 568 | 5 | |
Isle of Wight | 832 | 0 | |
Jackson | Not Found | Yes | |
James City | 239 | 0 | |
Williamsburg | 135 | 0 | |
Jefferson | 813 | 365 | Yes |
Kanawha | 520 | 1697 | Yes |
King and Queen | 873 | 0 | |
King George | 478 | 1 | |
King William | 496 | 0 | |
Lancaster | 432 | 0 | |
Lee | 1005 | 170 | |
Lewis | 422 | 736 | Yes |
Logan | 518 | 63 | Yes |
Loudoun | 1621 | 726 | |
Louisa | 1167 | 0 | |
Lunenburg | 905 | 0 | |
McDowell | 196 | 17 | Yes |
Madison | 833 | 0 | |
Marion | Not Found | Yes | |
Marshall | 142 | 1993 | Yes |
Mason | 119 | 1841 | Yes |
Mathews | 645 | 0 | |
Mecklenburg | 1286 | 0 | |
Mercer | 871 | 67 | Yes |
Middlesex | 491 | 2 | |
Monroe | 1189 | 79 | Yes |
Monogoalia | 110 | 2148 | Yes |
Montgomery | 1395 | 0 | |
Morgan | 126 | 533 | Yes |
Nansemond | 1012 | 0 | |
Nelson | 1164 | 0 | |
Norfolk | 2001 | 158 | |
Norfolk City | 1172 | 6 | |
Northampton | 505 | 0 | |
Northumberland | 548 | 47 | |
Nottoway | 374 | 0 | |
Ohio | 157 | 3368 | Yes |
Orange | 853 | 0 | |
Page | 1099 | 4 | |
Patrick | Not Found | ||
Pendleton | 696 | 131 | Yes |
Pittsylvania | 2469 | 0 | |
Pleasants | 158 | 303 | Yes |
Pocahontas | 360 | 13 | |
Powhatan | 451 | 0 | |
Preston | 63 | 2256 | Yes |
Prince Edward | 688 | 0 | |
Prince George | 364 | 2 | |
Prince William | 841 | 38 | |
Princess Anne | 798 | 0 | |
Pulaski | 603 | 0 | |
Putnam | 216 | 695 | Yes |
Raleigh | 229 | 183 | Yes |
Randolph | Not Found | Yes | |
Rappahannock | 943 | 0 | |
Richmond | 556 | 14 | |
Ritchie | Not Found | Yes | |
Roane | Not Found | Yes | |
Roanoke | 853 | 0 | |
Rockbridge | 1728 | 1 | |
Rockingham | 3012 | 22 | |
Russell | 832 | 89 | |
Scott | 842 | 139 | |
Shenandoah | 2513 | 5 | |
Smyth | 1281 | 0 | |
Spotsylvania | 1323 | 0 | |
Stafford | 701 | 4 | |
Surry | 353 | 0 | |
Sussex | 497 | 1 | |
Taylor | Not Found | Yes | |
Tazewell | 1406 | 0 | |
Tucker | 106 | 54 | Yes |
Tyler | 125 | 880 | Yes |
Upshur | 306 | 701 | Yes |
Warren | 675 | 3 | |
Warwick | Not Found | ||
Washington | 1907 | 20 | |
Wayne | 204 | 427 | Yes |
Webster | 129 | 26 | Yes |
Westmoreland | 667 | 1 | |
Wetzel | 180 | 790 | Yes |
Wirt | 150 | 507 | Yes |
Wise | 419 | 38 | |
Wood | 257 | 1995 | Yes |
Wyoming | 109 | 105 | Yes |
Wythe | 1168 | 1 | |
York | Not Found | ||
Total | 114,260 | 20,352 | |
Army | 10363 | 38 | |
Total | 124,896 | 20,390 |
Since the secessionists were democrats I suspect vote fraud ;-)
Interesting to note, if I counted correctly about 1/3 of West Virginia's counties voted for secession.
But the first vote in the Virginia Secession Convention, on April 4, 1861, was 88 to 45 against secession.
At the same time a convention leader met with President Lincoln, who reportedly offered to abandon Fort Sumter if the Virginia convention would adjourn.
Lincoln's offer was refused and so he went ahead with the Sumter resupply mission.
After Sumter, and Lincoln's call for troops, all Upper South states (Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas) felt compelled to chose sides, and however reluctantly chose their fellow slave-holders' Confederacy.
In Border States (Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky & Missouri) the Slave Power was simply not numerous enough to win a secession vote.
So while some of their young men did serve the Confederacy, far more supported Union forces.