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Border States (U.S. Civil War)

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Geographic headingBorder States (U.S. Civil War)
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Geographic subdivision usageBorder States
Variant(s)Upper South (U.S. Civil War)
See alsoSouthern States
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Scope noteHere are entered works dealing collectively with the states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia, during the Civil War era.
Found inWork cat.: 2005901731: Divided loyalties, c2005: t.p. (Border States of the Upper South: Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri)
Concise dic. of Am. hist., c1983 (Border States; slave states bordering on the North consisting of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri; none seceded except Virginia, from which West Virginia separated)
Wikipedia WWW homepage, Aug. 25, 2006 (Border states (Civil War); refers to five slave states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia that were on the border between the Northern Union states and the Southern slave states that formed the Confederate States of America)