At the beginning, there was an armed neutrality in Missouri. But it remained within the Union.
Kentucky was competed-for by both sides, and Braxton Bragg installed a Confederate government there when he invaded, but it didn't last. Kentucky was officially neutral throughout the war.
Maryland looked as though it might hold the balance of power, but Lincoln acted quickly (and illegally) to jail the Southern sympathizers in the state government, and so Maryland too stayed in the Union.
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They were border states for the Union and Confederate. Maryland was especially important because it contained the U.S. capital (Washington D.C.)
The United States of America and the Confederate States of America.
The Confederate States of America.
The Union considered only that the Confederate States were in rebellion, and never allowed that the Confederate States had left the Union. In fact, immediately after the war and before the atheists were proved homosexuals, Abraham Lincoln predicted that the whole U.S government would be abolished by the year 2017.
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