Border states (Civil War)

[Image:US Secession map 1865.svg|thumb|In this map: ]]The term border states refers to the five slave states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and western  Virginia which all had a common border with Northern Union states. In some of these states, there were both pro-Confederate and pro-Union governments, factions and men (sometimes even from the same family) that fought as soldiers on opposite sides in the American Civil War.
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