All Dressed Up, But No Where To Go
"In Yanceyville, Caswell County, the news [presumably the firing on Fort Sumter] was received with loud and long cheers for the Southern Confederacy and Jeff. Davis. The people turned out en masse. Bells were rung, eight rounds were fired by the Yanceyville Greys, -- one for each seceded State [of which North Carolina was not one] and one for the secession party. Our correspondent adds that 'many and loud were the curses heaped upon the head of our quandam [former] friend of the Standard, and the Black republican ape, old Abe.'"
The Semi-Weekly State Journal (Raleigh, North Carolina), 17 April 1861.
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At the time, the seven seceded states were:
1. South Carolina: December 20, 1860
2. Mississippi: January 9, 1861
3. Florida: January 10, 1861
4. Alabama: January 11, 1861
5. Georgia: January 19, 1861
6. Louisiana: January 26, 1861
7. Texas: February 1, 1861
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