The Militia of Louisiana seizes Forts Jackson and St. Philipe, guarding New Orleans. The Militia also seizes the federal arsenal at Baton Rouge.
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The Secession Convention, of Florida, votes unanimously to withdraw from the voluntary Union without giving a reason:
We, the people of the State of Florida, in convention assembled, do solemnly ordain, publish, and declare, That the State of Florida hereby withdraws herself from the confederacy of States existing under the name of the United States of America and from the existing Government of the said States; and that all political connection between her and the Government of said States ought to be, and the same is hereby, totally annulled, and said Union of States dissolved; and the State of Florida is hereby declared a sovereign and independent nation; and that all ordinances heretofore adopted, in so far as they create or recognize said Union, are rescinded; and all laws or parts of laws in force in this State, in so far as they recognize or assent to said Union, be, and they are hereby, repealed
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Subsequent Events:
Authority:
unanimous Declaration (of Independence), Paragraph 6
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Louisiana Constitution of 1852, Title III, Article 46
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Article X of Amendment
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 282.
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 152.
Secession Acts of the Thirteen Confederate States | American Battlefield Trust
www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/secession-acts-thirteen-confederate-states#FLORIDA
Reconstruction era – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era
Current U.s. National Debt:
