61 Secession

[conderatti]

I am sure this has been discussed at great length but I looked and could not find.

Any reason the Secession and capital placement is a bit a-historic.

The capital of the CSA was of course Montgomery during Sumter. Then moved to Richmond later.

Also many of the states did not Seceed until after Lincoln called for Volunteers. Any reason (I can think it was probably play balance or simplicity) that this was not simulated in the 61 scenario?

[McNaughton]

I am sure this has been discussed at great length but I looked and could not find.

Any reason the Secession and capital placement is a bit a-historic.

The capital of the CSA was of course Montgomery during Sumter. Then moved to Richmond later.

Also many of the states did not Seceed until after Lincoln called for Volunteers. Any reason (I can think it was probably play balance or simplicity) that this was not simulated in the 61 scenario?

Yeah, a lot of initial placement of units, allegiances, capitals, etc., are based primarily out of necessity in the early 1861 scenarios.

[lpremus]

Technically Arkansas was still in the union and adopted a new anti-slavery constitution in Jan 19, 1864.
This fact is from the Book Don't Know Much about History: The Civil War By Kenneth C Davis pp 364

I recommend this book to anyone. It is really light reading and it doesn't put me to sleep like other reading...Textbooks back in the day of college.

[Le Ricain]

[quote="lpremus"]Technically Arkansas was still in the union and adopted a new anti-slavery constitution in Jan 19, 1864.
This fact is from the Book Don't Know Much about History: The Civil War By Kenneth C Davis pp 364
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I am not sure when you are considering Arkansas as being technically still in the Union. After the attack on Ft Sumter and Lincoln's call for volunteers, the Arkansas convention was re-called and approved the Ordances of Sucession by a vote of 65 - 5 on the 6th May, 1861.

[Le Ricain]

In December, 1863 Lincoln issued his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, more popularly known as the 10% Plan. When 10% of a state's electorate, as per the 1860 election, gave an oath of allegiance to the USA, the state was permitted to form a state government, elect officials and resume normal relations with the Federal government and other states.

In January 1864, Arkansas held a convention in Little Rock to satisfy the 10% Plan and drafted a new state constitution that banned slavery.