History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

The South did not want Lincoln to be the President. At a meeting in the town of Montgomery, Alabama they formed a new government called the Confederate States of America.

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War ... they believed was left to them: secession, a political decision that led directly to war.

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War ... they believed was left to them: secession, a political decision that led directly to war.