The Untimely Hour- SECESSION!

 DISCLAIMER: This is the third novel installment in my "Call of Freedom" series, all events here are based and paralleled loosely on US History, but parts have been changed for the literary effect. Also, sometimes the outcome is changed to---for literary purposes. This is meant purely for entertainment, and fictitious.




The votes were tallied;





Senator John Bazewell of Virginia- 10%

Governor Ashley C. Beaufort of North Carolina-20%Senator Carley McLean of Illinois- 30%
Senator Andrew Robertson of Illinois- 40%


Since the States Rights people divided their vote between Bazewell, Beaufort and McLean it gave Robertson a clear victory.


On the steps of the South Carolina Capitol in Columbia, Rachel Midland preached secession to a rebellion-hungry crowd one uproarious evening. "Now is not the time to submit to the iron rule of the North! Now is the time to form our own country!!!" the crowd echoed; "Secession!!!!!!"  On the streets of Charleston, Greenville, Anderson, and each major city in South Carolina crowds gathered in arenas listening to the same type of speeches. Forgetting the warning from the triumvirate so many years ago about the; "untimely hour."  They took things into their own hands, and by unanimous consent... South Carolina seceded.

South Carolina was followed by; Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and North Carolina. 
The Deep South declared itself independent.  Robertson refused to remove the federal troops stationed at Fort Sumter, in the middle of the night South Carolina troops fired on Sumter.... war had begun.

When the Upper South heard what happened immediately; Virginia seceded.  Maryland and Delaware, still part of the South wanted to secede but were hesitating.



President Cara Millson of South Carolina was the reluctant president of the Confederacy. She was a great admirer of Senator Hausheer, and wished secession had never happened. However it happened, and Millson could not raise her arm against South Carolina.  Millson wanted to make peace with Robertson and the North.  General James Roberts was the Confederacy's choice--- a Virginian, who also was opposed to secession yet could not turn against Virginia.  The North choose Michael Judson as their general.  These two met at Newark, Delaware, and the North was caught off guard by how strong the South was.