rockrr
You know that isn't true. The confederates had agents and provocateurs in almost every state and territory agitating for admission to the regime.
You know that is true. Not one of the original 7 seceding states nor the others which later seceded after Lincoln started the war anywhere in their ordinances of secession made a claim to the territories of the US. They each left with only their own sovereign territory.
FLT-bird:
"Not one of the original 7 seceding states nor the others which later seceded after Lincoln started the war anywhere in their ordinances of secession made a claim to the territories of the US. They each left with only their own sovereign territory." The Confederacy officially claimed New Mexico territory in early 1862, but well before that:
"Early in the war, the Confederacy regarded the Arizona Territory as a valuable route by which to potentially access the Pacific Ocean, with the specific intention of capturing California.
In July 1861, a small Confederate force of Texans, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John R. Baylor, captured Mesilla, in the eastern part of the territory... "
The Confederacy claimed as much US territory as it thought it needed and could get.
Oklahoma was another.