Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland were border states that remained in the union but still allowed slavery. The state legislatures of Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland voted to remain. Missouri voted to leave the union but union troops stormed the state capital and installed a pro union government to insure they remained with the union. Prior to the Emancipation Proclamation captured slaves were returned to their masters in Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland and in fact there are records of the Union Army conducting slave auctions in the border states.
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The border states were Kentucky, Missouri, West Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland.
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware.
The breakaway slave-state of West Virginia (Union) was formed in 1863, though there was very little slavery there.
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During the Civil War, the United States was divided into the Union and the Confederacy. Twenty states belonged to the Union, and there were also four border states that did not secede from the United States, but also did not give up slavery. The Confederacy had eleven states.
There were four border-states - slave-states that stayed loyal. They were Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware. A fifth was the newly-formed state of West Virginia in 1863. It is also possible to classify the District of Columbia as a border-state, as slavery was still legal there in the first months of the war.
During the civil war there were 24 states in the union including the border states. but there was 23 states that remained loyal to the union during the war.
Union. (19-15)the Norththe union statesThe UnionThere were more loyal states than Confederate states. Eleven states joined the confederacy with 23 loyal states. United States territories also stayed loyal. There were four slave states (Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware and Missouri) which stayed loyal and West Virginia seceded from Virginia to stay in the Union.