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Along with most other Southern states, Arkansas from the Union in 1861, and 60,000 Arkansans fought for the Confederate States in the American Civil War.

There's no verb in the first part of this sentence.

Actually, a lot of the southern states were divided on the issue of seceding. A lot of North Georgia was pro-Union. That's waht saved some of our older towns from destruction during General Sherman's southern vacation.

"There's no verb in the first part of this sentence."

You're right, Two Bit; there isn't. In case it isn't obvious, that verb should be 'seceded', and it should come between the words 'Arkansas' and 'from'.

About many southern states being divided, do you think that's covered in the entry by saying that 15,000 Arkansans fought for the Union, or should there be something more?

Oh, and just to get a link to the entry we're talking about on the current convo page:

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>About many southern states being divided, do you think that's covered in the entry by saying that 15,000 Arkansans fought for the Union, or should there be something more?

I was just making conversation.

Yeah, when I wrote that bit, I thought about the whole "brother fighting brother" thing.

I grew up in Dallas, which doesn't really feel much like the south - it's just a big city. There, I didn't get much feeling for how strongly a lot of southerners still support the cause of the Confederacy - state's rights and all that.

People who believe in states' rights aren't limited to the south. When I was in California, I became very interested in the subject. I went to Sacremento to lobby our representative, and he was very much a states' rights activist.

Sympathy for the confederacy is probably more limited.

Presonally, I am a big proponent of states's rights, and on that basis I was very sympathetic to the confederate cause. I think states should be more powerful than they are. On the other hand, the slavery issue is abohorrent. If I were alive at the time, I would have fought for the Union, since that's my country, just as General Lee fought for Virigina, because that was his state.