by Michael J. Deeb

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Michael J. Deeb

is the author of seven novels which take place during the American Civil War known as The Drieborg Chronicles.
Duty and Honor is the first novel of The Drieborg Chronicles.
Duty Accomplished is the second novel.
In Honor Restored the character Michael returns to the life of a farmer.
In the fourth novel, The Lincoln Assassination Michael Drieborg works with a team of marshals.
The title 1860 America Moves Toward War explores the issues at stake in the 1860 elections.
In The Way West, Michael Drieborg's youngest son runs away to join the US Cavalry in the West. Civil War Prisons follows the fate of both Union and Confederate captives and the quality of life they each endured during their confinement.

Mike Deeb, with co-writer Robert Lockwood Mills, has also penned two novels which explore the Kennedy Assassination and attempts to answer the question, "Did Oswald Really Act Alone?" Learn more at thekennedymurder.com.


Michael also blogs on the Website americacolonists.com, telling the stories of the freest people on earth.


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Secession Winter (1860 – 1861)

 

Dividing-the-National-Map-1860The November 1860 presidential election was an unusual contest.

 

On Election Day, the Democratic Party was the only truly national party; and therefore on the ballot in all the thirty two states of the Union. The Republican Party was a sectional party and was not on the ballot in most of the slave states. But the Democratic Party split over the slavery issue and offered two different candidates, each of whom presented two different platforms to the people. A third party, the Constitutional Party, also emerged, further splitting the Democratic vote. On the other hand the Republican Party was united. They had one candidate and one platform. The result was predictable. The Republican Party nominee, Abraham Lincoln, was elected to the office of President. He was the first candidate elected to that office without receiving even one electoral vote from slave holding areas of the United States.

 

It is not my intention to examine all the reasons for panic and secession in the Slave South. It is my desire here to chronicle the events of the Secession Winter.

 

Within one month of the election, the South Carolina Secession Convention voted to invoke their perceived right as a sovereign state to leave the Union. A crisis was thus initiated that would occupy the attention of the people of the entire nation until Fort Sumter was fired upon the following April of 1861.

 

January 1861 saw several more states join South Carolina; Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, and Alabama. Texas followed in February and then joined representatives from these other six states in Montgomery, Alabama to form a new government, the Confederate States of America.

 

It is interesting that several other slave states did not immediately join this newly formed confederacy. The citizens of Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Arkansas saw their secession convention representatives vote to remain in the Union; for the time being.