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Virginia Ordinance of Secession

By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Sunday, November 22, 2009

The second wave of states to secede from the Union was made up of states from the upper South. These states were: Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia.

Alexander Stephens

By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Despite Stephens’s sickly body, behind his dark eyes he was blessed with a brilliant mind. His childhood was a difficult one, Stephens’s mother died soon after he was born, then his farmer and schoolteacher father died when Little Aleck was 14-years-old.