Secessionists

Secessionists refer to those Americans who supported leaving the Union and establishing an independent Confederate nation. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina left the Union, followed by six more lower-South states (Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana) over the next four months. After Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to put down the rebellion on April 12, 1861, four more states from the upper-south (Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee) seceded.

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Letter from J. B. Hancock to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; November 14, 1860
Letter from citizens of Enterprise Mississippi to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; December 6, 1860
Letter from Jacob Thompson to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; February 25, 1861
Letter from William G. Lampkin to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; May 28, 1861
Letter to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; April 17, 1862
Letter from W. A. Champlain to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus; May 23, 1862
Letter from W. D. Lyles to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 26, 1865
Letter from A. B. Dilworth to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; January 24, 1861
Letter from R. R. Fitzhugh to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; July 1, 1861
Letter from Gus H. Wilcox to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; November 4, 1862
Letter from J. H. Hammersly to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; November 16, 1862
Letter from John McAulis to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; April 10, 1863
Letter from Joseph T. Randolph to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; April 13, 1863
Letter from E. J. Marble to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; Undated
Letter from Ira McDowell to Colonel Otto Funke, referred to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; June 1865
Letter from St. H. Chalmers to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; June 23, 1865
Letter from James S. Prestidge to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; June 25, 1865
Letter from C. B. New to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 1, 1865
Letter from Mrs. A. N. Edmonds to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 1, 1865
Letter from Captain D. M. Graves to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 7, 1865
Letter from General William T. Martin to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 9, 1865
Letter from Dan R. Russell to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 5, 1865
Letter from H. W. Foote to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 5, 1865
Letters from William Hemingway and G. A. Wells; July 13, 1865
Letter from John M. Grant to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 15, 1865