Friday, June 7, 2013

May 6, 1861---Arkansas leaves the Union



MAY 6, 1861:      

 Arkansas secedes from the Union. 






[Interestingly, this broadside of the time features an elephant, a later symbol of the then despised anti-Confederate Republican Party, and the color blue, today a modern color of the then Confederate-friendly Democratic Party]

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