The election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States had touched off the series of secessions. By the time Lincoln took office four months later, the seceding states had taken possession of most of the forts and other public property of the United States lying within their borders. In Charleston Harbor, however, Fort Sumter still garrisoned United States…
Vicksburg is in the state of Mississippi, which joined the Confederacy. So its President was then Jefferson Davis. After it was liberated, it was occupied by Union troops, along with the whole of the Mississippi, so its president was effectively Abraham Lincoln.
President Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the U.S., issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The Civil War was a war of contradictions. The South seceded to perpetuate slavery and instead ended up destroying it. North vowed not to interfere with slavery and won sufficient support to kill it. Unlike many abolitionists, President Lincoln understood he couldn't eliminate slavery without first saving the union. And unlike many conservative Republicans and Democrats, he realized he couldn't save the union without eliminating slavery. Retrieved from:http://www.mrlincolnandfreedom.org/inside.asp?ID=39&subjectID=3
Virgina joined
Arkansas was a deep South slave state, however did not join the Confederacy until May 9, 1861. When President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to end the Southern rebellion, Arkansas saw a threat in Washington DC and joined the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson Davis was a member of the Democratic Party when he served in the United States Congress (before he joined the Confederacy and became the President of the Confederate States).
When US President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to help end the Southern rebellion, four more Southern states joined the Confederacy. These were the states of Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas and Tennessee. The Confederacy now was composed of eleven states.
Buchanan was president when SC, Miss, FL, Alabama, GA , Louisiana , and TX seceded. Four other states joined the Confederacy after Lincoln took office.
Seven states seceded while Buchanan was still the president and formed the Confederacy Four more states joined after Lincoln took office. The Confederacy elected Jefferson Davis as its president.
President of 'The Union' - that is, those states of the USA that had not seceded and joined the Confederacy.
After North Carolina joined the Confederacy, the Confederate President was Jefferson Davis.
After the surrender of Fort Sumter in April of 1861, President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to serve for three months and end the Southern rebellion. After Lincoln's announcement, the southern slave states of Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina joined the Confederacy.
Four of them did - Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas.
Four more states joined the Confederacy.
None. You're thinking of Fort Sumter. Lincoln's appeal for volunteers was taken as a declaration of war, and the four undecided states of the Upper South joined the Confederacy.
They couldn't formally declare war, because they didn't recognise the Confederacy as a sovereign nation. So Lincoln issued an appeal for volunteer troops. The South took the hint, and four slave-states of the Upper South joined the Confederacy. The war was on.
Texas joined the Confederacy in 1861
Four states of the Upper South joined the Confederacy, and the two sides were fully lined-up.