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Originally Posted by Jeffrey Smither

I always wondered why did the Confederacy make the capital in so far north? Surrounded by non slave states.

You would think somewhere like TN because you had the deep south to the south and west, KY to the north while pro union generally still had a number of confederate supporters and you have mostly pro Confederate Missouri to the west. Or even somewhere like MS because you had the MS river as a natural barrel to make invasion from the west harder. Except you have the Gulf the union could have landed.

Remember VA at first rejected secession, and West Virginia area wasn't that interested in secession.

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