In the northern land of the American Union, with the issuance of President Lincoln's enlistment order, and the public appeal of Douglas, a Northern Democrat, for everyone to be drafted into the military to defend the federal government, the people of the northern states fell into an excited patriotic upsurge.

The Free States of the North responded to the President's call, and almost all of the Northern States offered to exceed the conscription tasks assigned by the President. There was a patriotic upsurge throughout the North, where political figures were holding gatherings and speeches, militia military music was played, flags were waving, and many peasants, urban craftsmen, unemployed workers, hunters, and even the children of the nobility, who considered themselves men, put down their farm tools, tools, and pens and went to join the army in droves.

Massachusetts was the first state to reply to the White House, and Governor John Andrew told Lincoln in a somewhat triumphant telegram that he had foreseen the war and had mobilized the Massachusetts militia at the outset of the siege of Sumter Castle. As soon as he received the president's order, he immediately organized a militia ranks, and in the afternoon of the second day, from Boston, the capital of Massachusetts, two infantry regiments were dispatched, one to Washington, D.C., and the other to Fort Monroe, the southernmost tip of Hampton on the Virginia Peninsula, and the third and fourth infantry regiments had already begun to be formed, and they would set off within a week.

One after another, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio and other northern states have sent militia regiments.

But not all states in the Union did Lincoln's bidding. The governors of six of the eight slave-holding states in the Upper South openly defied Lincoln's orders.

Tennessee's governor declared directly in the newspapers: "Tennessee does not send a single soldier to the rule of power, but if we defend the rights of our southern brothers we can provide 50,000 troops." ”

The governor of Tennessee has reason to say this, because the state has a total population of more than one million and a slave population of nearly 300,000, making it a large slave-owning state. Originally, they were opposed to secession from the Union, but now that the federal government is directly attacking the South, they feel sad that they are dead, so they will make such a statement.

Virginia's Governor, John Lecher, sent a telegram to Lincoln on the third day, claiming that since President Lincoln had chosen to fight the Civil War and was the first to attack, Virginia would join the camp of the southern sister states.

North Carolina and Arkansas responded similarly. The two governors of Kentucky and Missouri, who had long intended to secede from the Union, directly refused to obey Lincoln's orders and ignored the president's conscription orders.

As a result, only two of the slave-holding states in the Upper South, Delaware and Maryland, responded to the Union by agreeing to call in militias. But something went wrong in Maryland! Of Maryland's population of 600,000, there were 90,000 black slaves, a significant number and proportion. Moreover, because of the high quality of black slaves here in Maryland, at today's prices, it is directly equivalent to at least 80 million dollars or even hundreds of millions of dollars, which is a huge amount of money!

And Maryland's proximity to or even surrounding the capital makes its location very important. Therefore, when Lincoln formed the cabinet government, he also played a trick by appointing Montgomery Blair of Maryland's largest slave-owning family as secretary of post, of course, because of Blair's close relationship with him, but in any case, in the eyes of the slave owners of the whole of Maryland and nearby Delaware, the president also turned a blind eye to slavery. Lincoln took control of Maryland by co-opting slave owners such as Blair. The governor of Maryland was a member of Blair's Francis family, and although many lawmakers in Maryland were worried about the abolition of slavery and insisted on seceding from the Union and turning to the southern camp, the governor forcibly suppressed it.

Just as the governor was about to respond to the president's order to call up militias throughout Maryland, several black slaves suddenly rebelled, killed the governor with guns, and set fire to some houses in Maryland's city hall, taking advantage of the chaos.

The murder of the governor by the slave rebellion, although immediately controlled by the Department of Justice and soldiers sent by the federal government, did not cause as much repercussions as the Brown uprising, but word spread. Although it is actually just a simple story of a slave killing his master and escaping, at this special moment, it is still extended to the outbreak of a slave revolt!

Now, the whole of Maryland exploded. The militias conscripted in various places did not dare to send them to the federal government, and they were instructed by slave owners everywhere to monitor their slaves to avoid the tragic occurrence of slave rebellion again.

Before the federal government could react, Virginia Governor John Lecher quickly made a speech claiming to avenge his friend, the governor of Maryland, by directly claiming that the slaves were instigated and pointing the banner at Washington.

He solemnly claimed that the Governor of Maryland had recently written to him that members of the Maryland Legislature had asked to secede from the Union of the North and join the Confederate States of America in the South. The governor of Maryland wanted to declare secession from the federal government in accordance with the resolution of the state legislature, but Washington sent military personnel to threaten his family to force him to change his decision, and kept delaying the state legislature from voting on secession. But he recently decided to convene a parliament and vote publicly on whether Maryland would secede from the Union, but he didn't expect such a thing to happen. The murderer must have been instructed by Washington, otherwise where did the blacks get their guns, and, according to John Lecher, the pistol of the murderer is suspected to be the rifle of more than 2,000 lieutenant officers of the infantry stationed in Washington, D.C. And after the murder, those blacks were able to escape smoothly, and they must have been covered by certain forces to succeed.

John Lecher's speech made many people in the Upper Southern slave states who did not know about the mayor of Maryland. Suddenly, the crowd was inflamed, and state legislators demanded that Maryland immediately vote publicly on whether to secede from the federal government. And the other states are asking Federal President Lincoln to give an account for this!

Lincoln also did not expect that the conscription of militias, which had been responded to by the northern states, would be distorted and become the focus of attention on the murder of black slaves and the vote of the Maryland legislators on whether to leave the Union.

The point is, both of these things are bad for the Federation!

Everyone recognized that the federal government did not approve of slavery, that is, sympathized with black slaves, but at this time, these black slaves killed their masters, and they were still the governor of Maryland, so everyone thought that the black man had been assassinated with the help of the Federation. Other governors, legislators, and slave owners began to put themselves at risk, and people who had been sympathetic to blacks began to re-examine whether blacks were worthy of sympathy. Even, you will really listen to the John Lecher, who said that the federal government instructed black slaves to kill the governor in order to prevent the Maryland legislature from voting.

Lincoln naturally knew that this was John Lecher nakedly spilling dirty water, and that the Negro's actions were in no way Federally dictated. But the problem is that he knows that the governor of Maryland is oriented towards the federal government, but those members of the state legislature tend to secede from the Union, after all, they are the largest group of slave owners in Maryland, and they are worried that after joining the federal camp, the slaves in their hands will be emancipated in the future, and their wealth will be lost.

Just when Lincoln was worried, the Maryland State Assembly held a public vote on whether to secede from the Union in Annapolis, a small town 50 kilometers from Washington, D.C. In order to avoid being threatened by the federal government, the speaker of the Maryland State Assembly not only invited reporters from major newspapers such as the Washington Evening News, The Sun, The New York Times, and the Baltimore Herald to supervise the report, but also invited people in Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and other places to supervise.

Maryland's state legislators, who were in favor of secession, were only exposed because of the lost governor's repeated delays in obstructing the vote. Not surprisingly, the Maryland State Assembly officially declared its secession from the Union with 57 votes in favor, 22 against, and 9 abstentions.

At the same time, a group of Baltimore thugs attacked several companies of the 6th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, the first militia unit on Governor Andrew's way to Washington, D.C. The militiamen returned fire, and 14 soldiers and 52 Baldivians were killed and many wounded after the scuffle ended. The attacked 6th Infantry Regiment arrived in Washington that night, but behind them, angry Marylanders smashed railroads and bridges, severed telegraph cables, and completely disrupted Washington, D.C., from the northeastern states.

Lincoln was taken aback when he heard the news, and he regretted his hesitation. Regardless of the news of the outbreak of the Battle at Fort Sumter or the secession of Virginia from the Union, it was necessary to immediately send troops to control the entire state of Maryland in the name of military control of Washington, D.C., so that the governor of Maryland would not have been assassinated. If the governor doesn't die, he will be able to hold Maryland's legislators back from voting to secede from the Union.

Now, the situation is very bad for me.

Although he knew that sending troops at the moment would be detrimental to his reputation and the reputation of the Federation, he had no choice. Washington, D.C., is surrounded by the whole of Maryland, and if Maryland does break away from the Union and join the rebels in the South, then the whole of Washington will be surrounded by rebel territory. Even Washington, D.C., might have rebelled against the Union, in which case the Union would be completely destroyed. Anyway, keep Maryland!

Therefore, he immediately ordered General Scott, the commander-in-chief of the army, to send 2,000 soldiers from two army infantry regiments in Washington, D.C., and 1,000 militiamen from the 6th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, which had just arrived in the D.C., to several counties in Maryland, especially the town of Annapolis, the capital of Maryland, and the important city of Baltimore. Helpless.

Lincoln ordered the news to be kept tightly sealed to prevent the forced military operation from being exposed. But there is no impermeable wall in the world, and the Maryland Legislature voted to secede from the Union, causing President Lincoln to send troops to forcibly suppress it, interfere in Maryland's internal affairs, and deprive Congress and members of their rights under the law.

People across Washington, D.C., began to rally against the president's unauthorized use of the military to suppress the Maryland State Assembly, but the presidential palace explained that the Maryland State Assembly was already controlled by the rebel Confederate States, and in order to ensure that federal interests were not harmed, the "habeas corpus" was temporarily abolished in some parts of Maryland and temporary martial law was imposed. The legislators can't decide whether Maryland will go or stay, only all Marylanders have the right to decide, and everything the Federation does is for the unity of the Federation!

At the same time, under the operation of the Communists, tens of thousands of workers in Maryland also began to rally, and the factory owners led the workers to call for support for the federal government, to smash the conspiracy to split the Union, to call for people to oppose the war, to oppose secession!

The workers' demonstrations relieved Lincoln. At this time, the militia regiments that arrived in the northern states one after another made Lincoln even more relieved. Maryland forced him to suppress the Union army and there was no rebellion.

But that's all!

As the Mariland incident spread, the entire northern American Confederation and the Upper Southern slave states, and the southern Confederate states learned of the incident. Soon, the first to react was Arkansas.

On April 26, the Arkansas State Assembly held a vote to secede, passing the decision to secede by a vote of 69 to 1. It was the second Upper Southern slave state after Virginia seceded from the Union.

As a result of this ripple effect, the North Carolina State Assembly unanimously agreed to withdraw from the Union on April 30. In Tennessee, where voters had opposed the conference, the state legislature also passed a resolution on May 1 to join the Confederate State directly, and for the sake of fairness, it is preparing to hold a referendum on May 8 for the entire Tennessee suffrage to approve whether to join the Southern Confederate States of America.