The “Congress of the Sovereign and Independent States of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana” meets in Montgomery, Alabama to form a central government between themselves.
[restored 1/25/2025]
The Commonwealth of Virginia elects a pro-Union majority to its Secession Convention.
[restored 1/25/2025]
One-hundred, thirty-one delegates from 26 remaining States in the Union—excluding the federal enclave of Ohio—meet at the Willard Hotel, in the District of Columbia, in a last-ditch effort to restore the Union.
[added 10/9/2026]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
unanimous Declaration (of Independence), Paragraph 6
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References:
Richard B. Bernstein, Amending America: If We Love the Constitution So Much, Why Do We Keep Trying to Change It?, (New York: Times Books, 1993), 71-72.
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 285.
Current U.s. National Debt:
