When:
December 20, 2017 all-day
2017-12-20T00:00:00-07:00
2017-12-21T00:00:00-07:00
Where:
http://www.tulane.edu/~sumter/Dilemmas/DDec20.html
Dec 20, 1860. South Carolinas legislature voted to secede from the US, the first state to do so. Within six weeks, five more states seceded. On Feb 4, 1861, representatives from the six states met at Montgomery, AL, to establish a government and on Feb 9 Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America. By June 1861, 11 stateshad seceded.
