OCTOBER 31, 1861:
Claiborne
Fox Jackson, the deposed pro-secessionist Governor of Missouri and a rump
pro-Confederate Legislature meet in Neosho, in southwestern Missouri, and pass
an Ordinance of Secession from the United States.
Missouri is immediately
admitted to the Confederacy, becoming the twelfth star on the Confederate flag.
Unfortunately for Jackson and his fellows, most of Missouri is controlled by
the Union. Like Kentucky’s, which would be added in November, Missouri’s
Southern Star is more symbolic than real.
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