Alternate Civil War Counter-Secessions

We all know West Virginia chose to leave Virginia during the civil war to become it's own state and fight on the side of the Union. Many civIl war timelines play with this idea and have more areas sympathetic to the north do the same. What areas do you think could have become there own state during the civil war? Bonus points if you can make an area leave a Union state and join the Confederacy.
 

jahenders

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I think you could certainly have had portions of Kansas and/or Missouri secede given the level of conflict in both on the issue. Perhaps also portions of Kentucky.
 
There were plenty of places that opposed secession IOTL. Eastern Tennessee is the easiest for the Union army to get to.

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East Tennessee, without a doubt. Tennessee had questionable loyalties to the Confederacy at first, since most viewed the idea as illegitimate, and Tennessee turned down secession at first. Lincoln's call for soldiers helped push Tennessee into the Confederate camp, but even that vote was very contested, and the vote in the state was very divided, and pushed for because of the governor Isham G. Harris. East Tennessee, with very little reliance on slavery, strong unionism, and very different economy than the rest of the state, very well could have split off, and they actually tried to gain West Virginia-esque recognition with the East Tennessee Convention.

I think Tennessee split between East Tennessee, Middle Tennessee, and West Tennessee is a possibility considering the Civil War. Only in West Tennessee was there overwhelming support of the CSA--Middle Tennessee voted for it too, but I wonder if it could be swayed the other way, since it was far closer than West Tennessee. There's certainly lots of land which is totally unsuitable for the chattel slavery which the CSA stood for.
 
Could Florida swing to the union and be a thorn in the side of an alternate South?

The idea of a chaotic civil war with unclear lines interests me. Perhaps Richmond falls early and thus the civil war is fought as mostly guerilla warfare because no stable fronts ever exist?
 
We all know West Virginia chose to leave Virginia during the civil war to become it's own state and fight on the side of the Union. Many civIl war timelines play with this idea and have more areas sympathetic to the north do the same. What areas do you think could have become there own state during the civil war? Bonus points if you can make an area leave a Union state and join the Confederacy.

There had been a single community in the North wich seceded and never rejoined the Union.
 

Anaxagoras

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There were plenty of places that opposed secession IOTL.

Opposing secession doesn't equal being Unionist or opposing the Confederacy. Vicksburg, MS, voted against secession, but a few weeks later the townspeople were wildly cheering Jefferson Davis as he passed through on the way to Montgomery to be sworn in as President. Austin, TX, voted against secession, but not long after they were recruiting what turned out to be some of the toughest soldiers the Confederate Army put into the field. And, if you really want a shocking example, Jubal Early, arguably the most Confederate of Confederates, strongly opposed secession until the moment Virginia actually seceded.
 
Now that map is quite interesting, could West VIrginia get an outlet to the sea along the border with Maryland? Why wasn't it given to them in RL after the war, to further weaken Virginia?
 
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