On Monday, January 28, he received the “joyful news” about Louisiana’s secession, which brought the total of seceded states to six.
In chronological order:
The eleven states of the CSA, in order of their dates of secession (listed in parentheses), were:
South Carolina (December 20, 1860),
Mississippi (January 9, 1861),
Florida (January 10, 1861),
Alabama (January 11, 1861),
Georgia (January 19, 1861),
Louisiana (January 26, 1861),
Texas (February 1, 1861),
Virginia (April 17, 1861),
Arkansas (May 6, 1861),
North Carolina (May 20, 1861), and
Tennessee (June 8, 1861).
